How to depress the output of an external module ?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 03:21:57 -0800, Luis Armendariz wrote:

> On Tuesday, 26.12.06 at 21:28, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> 
>> # WARNING: untested
>> def run_without_stdout(*args, **kwargs):
>>     function = args[0]
>>     args = args[1:]
>>     savestdout = sys.stdout
>>     sys.stdout = cStringIO.StringIO()
>>     result = None
>>     try:
>>         result = function(*args, **kwargs)
>>     finally:
>>         # don't forget to restore stdout, or you 
>>         # really will regret it...
>>         sys.stdout = savestdout
>>     return result
>> 
> 
> There's no need for savestdout. There's a backup copy in sys.__stdout__

You shouldn't assume that sys.stdout is standard output when the function
is called. It may already have been reassigned to something else. My code
will restore sys.stdout to whatever state it was in before the function
ran.



-- 
Steven.