[How to change redirect stderr?]

[Moretti]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> "Moretti" wrote:
> 
>> I would like to be able to change the standard error path.
> 
> (I'm not sure path is the right word here, really, but never mind...)
> 
>> How can I do this in a script if I want to send error messages to
>> /dev/null by example ?
> 
> if you're talking about things that Python prints to stderr, all you need
> to do is to replace sys.stderr with something more suitable:
> 
>     import sys
>     sys.stderr = open("/dev/null", "w")
> 
> or, more portable:
> 
>     class NullDevice:
>         def write(self, s):
>             pass
> 
>     sys.stderr = NullDevice()
> 
> if you want to redirect both things printed via sys.stderr and things
> printed to stderr at the C level, you need to redirect the STDERR file
> handle.  here's one way to do that:
> 
>     import os, sys
> 
>     sys.stderr.flush()
>     err = open('/dev/null', 'a+', 0)
>     os.dup2(err.fileno(), sys.stderr.fileno())
> 
> hope this helps!
> 
> </F>

Thanks
It's exactly what I seek for.

-- 
Sebastien Moretti