Portable /dev/null?

[Nicolas Fleury]

Hi everyone,
Is there an object in some standard library that would be the portable
equivalent of "file('/dev/null','w')" or do I have to create my own
class and object to do it? If it doesn't exist, do you think it would
be a good idea to have such an object in a standard library?

Thx and Regards,

Nicolas

 

[Peter Hansen]

Is there an object in some standard library that would be the portable
equivalent of "file('/dev/null','w')" or do I have to create my own
class and object to do it? If it doesn't exist, do you think it would
be a good idea to have such an object in a standard library?

Probably considered too simple to bother putting in the standard library.

class nullFile:
def write(self, data):
pass

Or something to that effect...

-Peter

 

[Josiah Carlson]

Hi everyone,
Is there an object in some standard library that would be the
portable equivalent of "file('/dev/null','w')" or do I have to create my
own class and object to do it? If it doesn't exist, do you think it
would be a good idea to have such an object in a standard library?

Thx and Regards,

Nicolas

In Windows you can open the file 'NUL' and it will work the same as
'/dev/null' in *nix.

- Josiah

 

[Peter Hansen]

In Windows you can open the file 'NUL' and it will work the same as
'/dev/null' in *nix.

Note that Nicolas asked for a "portable" approach... clearly neither
NUL nor /dev/null are portable.