screen off?

[Adam Hupp]

On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 21:49:06 +0000, Lance wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> Some of my programs generate considerable screen output. I would like to
> turn off the screen output to save time while developing. Is there a way to
> do this, and turn it back on again?

You can do this by assigning a new file-like object to sys.stdout, i.e.

sys.stdout = open("/dev/null", "w")

Or even better something of your own design that filters calls to write().

The original stdout is stored in sys.__stdout__ (didn't this used to be
_stdout?)  if you would like to restore it.

-Adam