On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2011.06.28 01:32 AM, Peter Otten wrote: >> >>> subprocess.call(["ls"], stdout=open(os.devnull, "w")) >> 0 > D'oh! Not sure why I was thinking os.devnull was a file object. :-[
On the bright side, I think in part due to this /exact/ misunderstanding, in bleeding-edge Python v3.3 you can now write: >>> subprocess.call(["ls"], stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL) http://docs.python.org/dev/library/subprocess.html#subprocess.DEVNULL Cheers, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
