subprocess-how to suppress the stdout

[alf]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> "alf" <ask at me.xs4all.nl> wrote:
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>>I can achieve it by using Popen(...,stdout=subprocess.PIPE,...) but
>>wonder where the all stdout actually goes. Is it buffered (to eventually
>>fill up)
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> it ends up in a pipe buffer, yes.
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>>Or there is a better solution ...
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> /dev/null is your friend:
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>     Popen(..., stdout=open("/dev/null", "w"), stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, ...)
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I am forced to use win32 :-( plus it needs to be platform independent ...