New submission from John Burnett <pyt...@johnburnett.com>: The functions _syscmd_uname and _syscmd_file are hard-coded to pipe stderr to "/dev/null", as opposed to os.devnull. On Windows, this has the effect of creating a file called "null" to a local "dev" directory (if the directory exists).
Attached is a fix. While the _syscmd_uname change isn't entirely necessary on Windows due to its sys.platform check, I changed both functions for consistency (and I'm not sure what other platforms might not have a "/dev/null" either). ---------- components: Library (Lib) files: devnull.patch keywords: patch messages: 90499 nosy: john.burnett severity: normal status: open title: platform.py writes to hard coded platform dependant "dev/null" type: behavior versions: Python 2.5, Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.0, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file14497/devnull.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6479> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
