. Python 2.1 function attributes

[David Bolen]

Roy Katz <katz at Glue.umd.edu> writes:

> On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Moshe Zadka wrote:
(...)
> > sys.stdout = sys.stderr
> > try:
> > 	print foo, bar
> > finally:
> > 	sys.stdout = sys.__stdout__
> > 
> 
> what is wrong with redirection? must we wrap the output in a try:
> anymore than wrap a standard print in a try:?

Because without this try, if something goes wrong you won't restore
sys.stdout to what it started with, which might affect surrounding
code.  That's not an issue with a normal print in the middle of code,
but important when you're redirecting things.

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