Getting stdout using ctypes.

[Larry Bates]

Mathias Lorente wrote:
> Hello all.
> 
> I have a simple application (C++) that relies on shared libraries. It 
> works fine in console mode.
> Lot of job is done into the shared library, so there is some calls to 
> 'std::cout' to inform the user in it.
> 
> Now, I would like to wrap everything into a GUI, remove the application 
> and call directly everything from Python using ctypes. (I still need the 
> console application to launch it manually if needed).
> I've made a simple library to test ctypes and everything works fine 
> except that I don't know how to get stout in order to redirect it 
> somewhere (dialog box or so).
> 
> I've looked for some help into the mailing list history and found 
> nothing useful (until now).
> Do someone has any suggestion?
> 
> Mathias
> 
If I'm understanding your question correctly, you can replace sys.stdout with 
any class that provides a write method.

class myStdout(object):
     def __init__(self):
         self.lines = list()

     def write(self, data):
         self.lines.append(data)


Then in program do something like

import sys
sys.stdout = myStdout()

Now everything that would have gone to stdout will be buffered into the list in 
sys.stdout.lines.

-Larry