On Sep 11, 10:22 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED] central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sion Arrowsmith wrote: > > > Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Windows has a NUL: device which behaves like /dev/null . > > It's not a device, it's a reserved file name. Or rather, a reserved file > name prefix: any attempt to open a file name beginning with NUL, e.g. > NUL.DAT, will cause your output to disappear into a black hole.
Yes Windows and its whacky error messages. While trying to save a Word doc as 'NUL.doc' I got this error message: "The file name 'NUL.doc' is a reserved device name." It's no wonder some might mistake it for a device! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
