On Jan 9, 3:52 pm, Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> wrote: > Robert Kern schrieb: > > > > > 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. > > I know that. I wanted to show him a better way than messing around with > file descriptors. In Python one doesn't have to (and should not) alter > the file descriptor of a standard stream. Python always uses sys.stderr > to write to the standard error stream. > > Christian
Christian - it's not python that's the problem. Unfortunately the stuff I'm calling (outside of python) won't play nicely unless I mess with the FD's.. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
