redirecting stderr back..

[Robert Kern]

Christian Heimes wrote:
> rh0dium schrieb:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Can someone tell me how to redirect stderr back to the console once
>> you've moved it?
> 
> sys.stderr = sys.__stderr__
> 
> or better:
> 
> orig_stderr = sys.stderr
> try:
>     sys.stderr = open(...)
>     ...
> finally:
>     sys.stderr = orig_stderr

He's not reassigning the sys.stderr object; he's fiddling with the underlying 
file descriptor.

Steven, look at my code here for a mostly complete solution:

   http://www.enthought.com/~rkern/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/redir/

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco