contextlib.redirect_stdout()
contextlib.redirect_stdout() is a Python function in the Contextlib Module category. Redirects sys.stdout to a file or StringIO. The syntax is contextlib.redirect_stdout(new_target). Returns: Context manager. A typical example: from io import StringIO
buf = StringIO()
with redirect_stdout(buf):
print("Captured!")
print(buf.getvalue()) # "Captured!\n". A close sibling is contextlib.contextmanager(), which a decorator that creates a context manager from a generator function. A close sibling is contextlib.suppress(), which a context manager that suppresses specified exceptions. A close sibling is contextlib.redirect_stderr(), which redirects sys.stderr to a file or StringIO. A close sibling is contextlib.closing(), which a context manager that calls thing.close() on exit. More about this category: Context manager utilities — contextmanager, suppress, ExitStack. Related Contextlib Module entries: contextlib.contextmanager(), contextlib.suppress(), contextlib.redirect_stderr(), contextlib.closing(), contextlib.nullcontext(), contextlib.ExitStack(). This page is part of the free Python Reference documentation covering 978+ functions, methods, and modules with examples and parameter details.