stdout

[Michael Hudson]

"Michaell Taylor" <Michaell.Taylor at reis.com> writes:

> I am having a bit of trouble redirecting output from a file back to the
> terminal.  I have:
> 
> import sys
> f=open('c:\output.txt', 'w')
> sys.stdout=f
> blah..
> blah..
> blah..
> sys.stdout='<stdout>'
> print 'finished'
> 
> 
> which does not work.  I've searched the docs but only see references for
> directing to files (which is helpful) but none for redirecting to a screen.
> The last two lines aren't doing the trick.  Any ideas?

You need to save the original sys.stdout somewhere, eg.

oldstdout = sys.stdout
try:
    f=open('c:\output.txt', 'w')
    sys.stdout=f
    blah....
finally:
    sys.stdout = oldstdout

HTH,
Michael

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