[despammed] Re: redirect sys.stdout to C++ ?

[Peter Hansen]

Tatsujin wrote:
> 
> Donn Cave wrote:
> > That isn't precisely the way to go.  The key point here is that unlike C++,
> > Python doesn't care if stdout is subclass of the builtin file object type -
> > doesn't make any difference at all.  So maybe it is indeed easier - you
> > only need an object that supports the functions that stdout going to use.
> >
> > If you have the Python source, cStringIO does that (much more than you
> > need, though.)
> 
> Ah! So it's that easy?  (but then again, it's python we're talking here, no big
> surprise  :-)
> 
> Shouldn't be much trouble then, I suppose. Thanks a bunch!

It can actually be as easy as this (or easier, I suppose):

class Logger:
    def __init__(self, filename):
        self.filename = filename
    def write(self, data):
        f = open(self.filename, 'a')
        f.write(data)
        f.close()

import sys
sys.stdout = Logger('/var/log/myapp.log')

print 'This is a test'


-Peter