Altering 'print'/mod_python

[Jeff Davis]

Thanks for the help. I found out that sys.__stdout__ holds the original 
stdout, so I can use that rather than a temp variable:

import sys
sys.stdout = foo
...
sys.stdout = sys.__stdout__

Thanks,
        Jeff

Remco Gerlich wrote:

> Jeff Davis <jdavis at empires.org> wrote in comp.lang.python:
>>         I have a webserver running mod_python and I would like it to
>>         execute
>> python scripts (kind of like mod_perl or php). I basically made the
>> python handler script call execfile(req.filename). I am not sure this is
>> the best method.
>>         Anyway, when inside the python script that is called by execfile
>>         you
>> have to use req.write() to print stuff. Is there a way to access the
>> print statement directly so that when someone says print it calls
>> req.write rather than printing to a file object?
>> 
>>         Any advice here would be appreciated, I am certainly not
>>         confident
>> that I am on the right track.
> 
> Redirect stdout, like this:
> 
> try:
>    import sys
>    oldstdout = sys.stdout
>    sys.stdout = req
>    execfile(req.filename)
> finally:
>    sys.stdout = oldstdout
> 
> Print calls sys.stdout.write, which is now redirected to req.write. The
> try: finally: is necessary to make sure the old stdout is reinstated, even
> if an exception occurs.
> 
> That would work. I don't know how sensible using execfile is, either.
>