[Python-checkins] bpo-41147: [doc] contextlib.redirect_stdout() provides the new stream as context var (GH-21199) (GH-26379)
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Wed May 26 10:34:31 EDT 2021
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/1261941e02cd04829592b1b1360b4ec21bfcdb9a
commit: 1261941e02cd04829592b1b1360b4ec21bfcdb9a
branch: 3.10
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: iritkatriel <iritkatriel at yahoo.com>
date: 2021-05-26T15:34:22+01:00
summary:
bpo-41147: [doc] contextlib.redirect_stdout() provides the new stream as context var (GH-21199) (GH-26379)
(cherry picked from commit 46db39d7bd67fb9fea133cd4f18cdf7eacb0f6d9)
Co-authored-by: Peter Law <PeterJCLaw at gmail.com>
files:
M Doc/library/contextlib.rst
diff --git a/Doc/library/contextlib.rst b/Doc/library/contextlib.rst
index dd903ce8ee916..42834fe68bfae 100644
--- a/Doc/library/contextlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/contextlib.rst
@@ -312,10 +312,11 @@ Functions and classes provided:
For example, the output of :func:`help` normally is sent to *sys.stdout*.
You can capture that output in a string by redirecting the output to an
- :class:`io.StringIO` object::
+ :class:`io.StringIO` object. The replacement stream is returned from the
+ ``__enter__`` method and so is available as the target of the
+ :keyword:`with` statement::
- f = io.StringIO()
- with redirect_stdout(f):
+ with redirect_stdout(io.StringIO()) as f:
help(pow)
s = f.getvalue()
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