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Author	d_kagedal
Recipients	d_kagedal
Date	2007-10-22.12:04:17
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Message-id	<1193054658.57.0.203252941268.issue1311@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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When moving from Python 2.4 to Python 2.5, my program stopped working on win32 because of a change in os.path.exists. I couldn't find any description of the change, so I can only assume it's a bug. The os.devnul variable contains the name of the "null file", which is "/dev/null" on posix, and "nul" on win32. As I understand it, "NUL" is a file that exists in every directory on win32. Opening the "nul" file with open("nul", "r") works fine, but os.path.exists("nul") returns False. In Python 2.4, it returns True.

When moving from Python 2.4 to Python 2.5, my program stopped working on
win32 because of a change in os.path.exists. I couldn't find any
description of the change, so I can only assume it's a bug.

The os.devnul variable contains the name of the "null file", which is
"/dev/null" on posix, and "nul" on win32. As I understand it, "NUL" is a
file that exists in every directory on win32.

Opening the "nul" file with open("nul", "r") works fine, but
os.path.exists("nul") returns False. In Python 2.4, it returns True.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2007-10-22 12:04:19	d_kagedal	set	spambayes_score: 0.00937225 -> 0.009372246 recipients: + d_kagedal
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2007-10-22 12:04:17	d_kagedal	create