Catching console output to string?

[Moshe Zadka]

On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Robert Brotherus wrote:

> Thank you for your help!
> 
> At least in the Python environment, I got your proposed idea working. The
> code:
> 
> import sys
> print "Starting........."
> 
> class StringWriter:
>     def __init__(self):
>         self.x = ""
>     def write(self, text):
>         self.x += text

You forget one thing: Python coes with batteries included.
StringWriter can be replaced with StringIO/cStringIO.