[Python-Dev] Special file "nul" in Windows and os.stat

[Fred Drake]

On Oct 24, 2007, at 4:23 PM, Facundo Batista wrote:
> There (and always talking in windows), the OP says the in Py2.4
> os.path.exists("nul") returned True and now in 2.5 returns False. Note
> that "nul" is an special file, something like /dev/null.

It's special, but in a different way.  /dev/null really exists in the  
Unix filesystem; "nul" is more magical than that.

What's more, it has peers: "prn", "com1" and others like that.

I don't know what the right way to handle these is (I'm no Windows  
guru, or even regular user), but it's important to realize that the  
pain of the specialness isn't limited.  :-)


   -Fred

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