"fork and exit" needed?

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

In <8osmm21skionildtnme1j0nvqbla6oqk72 at 4ax.com>, Vincent Delporte wrote:

> Anyone knows if those lines are necessary, why, and what their
> alternative is in Python?
> 
> -------
> open STDOUT, '>/dev/null'; 

sys.stdout = open(os.devnull, 'w') 

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch