portable /dev/null

[Brendan Miller]

Hi,

I have functions that take a file object and write to it. In some cases I
just want to throw out what is written to that file object. I want
something like open('/dev/null', 'w'), but portable.

It needs to have an underlying file descriptor/file handle, as it will be
passed to non python code.

Is there a portable /dev/null somewhere in the standard library?

Thanks,
Brendan