Re: [Tutor] Replacing cmd.exe with custom .py application

On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:30:55 +0000 (UTC), Lie Ryan <lie.1296@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:09:06 -0400, Ezra Taylor wrote:

Is there something similar to /dev/null on Windows?


I think it's called nul

REM This is a batch file (.bat)
echo "This won't show" > NUL

I'm not sure how to use it in python though.


Check out os.devnull. You can open it and write to it.

Jean-Paul
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