Message 86761 - Python tracker

Message86761

Author	MrJean1
Recipients	MrJean1
Date	2009-04-28.19:24:02
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The subprocess module exposes the PIPE and STDOUT constants to be used for the stdin, stdout or stderr keyword arguments. Often, stderr needs to be redirected to /dev/null (on posix). It would nice if another constant was available for that purpose, e.g. subprocess.DEVNULL. Perhaps, that might be as simple as DEVNULL = os.open(os.devnull, os.OS_RDWR) and re-use the same, single file descriptor.

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The subprocess module exposes the PIPE and STDOUT constants to be used 
for the stdin, stdout or stderr keyword arguments.

Often, stderr needs to be redirected to /dev/null (on posix).  It would 
nice if another constant was available for that purpose, e.g. 
subprocess.DEVNULL.

Perhaps, that might be as simple as

DEVNULL = os.open(os.devnull, os.OS_RDWR)

and re-use the same, single file descriptor.

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