Billy Mays wrote: > The reason I used stdout was because I was going to be using it in a > tool chain where the stdout might need to be formatted for another > program to read in.
print writes to sys.stdout unless you tell it different. >>> import sys >>> import StringIO >>> capture = StringIO.StringIO() >>> sys.stdout = capture >>> print "spam" >>> sys.stdout = sys.__stdout__ # Restore the real file. >>> capture.getvalue() 'spam\n' Syntax for printing elsewhere is ugly as sin in Python 2, but it works: >>> print >>sys.stderr, "spam" spam >>> print >>capture, "ham" >>> capture.getvalue() 'spam\nham\n' > Thats also why I was catching ImportError since a > later version of this script might need to do something special with it. Well you better also catch SyntaxError, because a later version of your script might need to do something special with it too :) Also RuntimeError, ValueError, TypeError... *wink* -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
