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Author brett.cannon
Recipients brett.cannon, dgreiman, eric.smith, orsenthil, ztane
Date 2016-10-14.21:36:25
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Since /dev/null is not a file according to os.path.isfile(), I'm going to close this as not a bug.

And to answer Antti's question, it's because the semantics come from the original C code where EAFP is not pleasant.
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