Changing interpreter's deafult output/error streams

[Robert Kern]

Ira wrote:
> OK let me rephrase,
> 
> the standard error stream (and if I'm not mistaken also the one that
> PyErr_Print() writes to) is the python object sys.stderr. Now say I'd go
> ahead and write the following in python...
> 
> SomeNewStreamOrFileOrWhateverItIs = new stream
> sys.stderr = SomeNewStreamOrFileOrWhateverItIs
> 
> I can go ahead and do the exact same thing from the C source code. All I
> need to do is to figure out how to wrap a c-style FILE* with a PyObject, And
> PySys_SetObjet("stderr", newstream);
> 
> I'm very new to python so that might be nonsense but it appeals to my
> programmer's common sense. Can anyone tell me how to do this?

http://docs.python.org/api/fileObjects.html

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