David-Sarah Hopwood <david-sa...@jacaranda.org> added the comment:
"... os.dup2() ..."
Good point, thanks.
It would work to change os.dup2 so that if its second argument is 0, 1, or 2,
it calls _get_osfhandle to get the Windows handle for that fd, and then reruns
the console-detection logic. That would even allow Unicode output to work after
redirection to a different console.
Programs that directly called the CRT dup2 or SetStdHandle would bypass this.
Can we consider such programs to be broken? Methinks a documentation patch for
os.dup2 would be sufficient, something like:
"When fd1 refers to the standard input, output, or error handles (0, 1 and 2
respectively), this function also ensures that state associated with Python's
initial sys.{stdin,stdout,stderr} streams is correctly updated if needed. It
should therefore be used in preference to calling the C library's dup2, or
similar APIs such as SetStdHandle on Windows."
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