[python-win32] How do I re-assign stdin and stdout

[David Rock]

* Greg Baryza <baryza at intersystems.com> [2004-07-23 12:53]:
> Sorry for the newbie question, but...
> 
> So far I have been creating scripts that automate command invocations and 
> start up Windows apps just fine.  Now, however, I wanted automate some 
> Perforce commands.  Perforce has an option that takes writes its command 
> output as a marshaled Python dictionary.  This requires me to route stdout 
> to a file.
> 
> I have created a file using win32file and gotten back a file handle.  I 
> have assigned that file handle to the hStdOutput item in STARTUPINFO.  I 
> have passed the STARTUPINFO to the win32process.CreateProcess method.  Yet, 
> the output does not get written to the file.
> 
> I have tested various combinations of create and sharing options, but 
> nothing seems to work.  There is obviously some detail I am missing.  Can 
> someone give me the nudge I need to get over this hurdle?

The simplest way to redirect stdout to a file is something like this:

print >>file, "what you want to print(write)"

This may not be quite what you are looking for, though.

-- 
David Rock
david at graniteweb.com
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