From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 22:03:29 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: #8709: mention Windows support for os.devnull.
X-Git-Tag: v2.7rc1~110
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#8709: mention Windows support for os.devnull.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst
index 7eff160cd4f1..64e04bed781c 100644
--- a/Doc/library/os.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/os.rst
@@ -2410,8 +2410,8 @@ Higher-level operations on pathnames are defined in the :mod:`os.path` module.
 
 .. data:: devnull
 
-   The file path of the null device. For example: ``'/dev/null'`` for POSIX.
-   Also available via :mod:`os.path`.
+   The file path of the null device. For example: ``'/dev/null'`` for
+   POSIX, ``'nul'`` for Windows.  Also available via :mod:`os.path`.
 
    .. versionadded:: 2.4