disposing of buffered output

[Skaperen]

the .flush() method will empty buffered output, but that data actually gets written. how can i dispose of the buffered output and have it not be written. i am doing this to sys.stdout in case that matters. if there is no Pythonic way then i'll just close the file descriptor and then do .flush(). i actually will have nothing more to print. but if i did, i could, on POSIX, os.dup() the file descriptor, before doing the flush, then os.dup2() it back to where expected.