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-rwxr-xr-xLib/platform.py4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/platform.py b/Lib/platform.py
index f2dd520..eedc11c 100755
--- a/Lib/platform.py
+++ b/Lib/platform.py
@@ -997,8 +997,8 @@ def _syscmd_file(target,default=''):
return default
target = _follow_symlinks(target)
try:
- proc = subprocess.Popen(['file', '-b', '--', target],
- stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=dev_null)
+ proc = subprocess.Popen(['file', target],
+ stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
except (AttributeError,os.error):
return default
output = proc.communicate()[0].decode("latin-1")