Python capture all printed output

Question

I am looking to write console based programs in python that can execute functions to perform generic tasks, pretty generic. Is it possible to capture everything written to the c

Answer 1

You can do this by setting sys.stdout to be a file of your choice

import sys

sys.stdout = open('out.dat', 'w')
print "Hello"

sys.stdout.close()

Will not display any output but will create a file called out.dat with the printed text.

Note that this doesn't need to be an actual file but could be a StringIO instance, which you can just use the getvalue method of to access everything that has been printed previously.