redirect_stdout

Context manager for temporarily redirecting sys.stdout to another file or file-like object.

Syntax

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contextlib.redirect_stdout(new_target)

Examples

Example 1

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with redirect_stdout(io.StringIO()) as f:
    help(pow)
s = f.getvalue()

Example 2

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with open('help.txt', 'w') as f:
    with redirect_stdout(f):
        help(pow)

Example 3

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with redirect_stdout(sys.stderr):
    help(pow)

See Also

sys.stdout help() io.StringIO with help() help() sys.stdout reentrant