subprocess-how to suppress the stdout

[Fredrik Lundh]

alf wrote:

>> /dev/null is your friend:
>>
>>     Popen(..., stdout=open("/dev/null", "w"), stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, ...)
>>
> 
> I am forced to use win32 :-( plus it needs to be platform independent ...

alright, os.devnull is your friend:

  Popen(..., stdout=open(os.devnull, "w"), stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, ...)

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