Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Given the mention of the posix example, I agree. The issue applies to 2.6 and 3.2 (that I checked) and so I assume to 2.7 and 3.1 also. There is no doc string for devnull, which I presume should be in ntpath.

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help(os.devnull) no Python documentation found for 'nul'

If this is a singular omission (as opposed to a general lack in that module), you might expand the patch to remedy that also. ---------- nosy: +tjreedy stage: -> commit review versions: +Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker http://bugs.python.org/issue8709 _______________________________________

Georg Brandl added the comment: Thanks, applied in r81450. ---------- nosy: +georg.brandl resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker http://bugs.python.org/issue8709 _______________________________________