Fredrik Lundh wrote: > "Moretti" wrote: > >> I would like to be able to change the standard error path. > > (I'm not sure path is the right word here, really, but never mind...) > >> How can I do this in a script if I want to send error messages to >> /dev/null by example ? > > if you're talking about things that Python prints to stderr, all you need > to do is to replace sys.stderr with something more suitable: > > import sys > sys.stderr = open("/dev/null", "w") > > or, more portable: > > class NullDevice: > def write(self, s): > pass > > sys.stderr = NullDevice() > > if you want to redirect both things printed via sys.stderr and things > printed to stderr at the C level, you need to redirect the STDERR file > handle. here's one way to do that: > > import os, sys > > sys.stderr.flush() > err = open('/dev/null', 'a+', 0) > os.dup2(err.fileno(), sys.stderr.fileno()) > > hope this helps! > > </F>
Thanks It's exactly what I seek for. -- Sebastien Moretti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list