Suppressing printout of “Exception … ignored” message in Python 3

Question

There is a known issue in Python, where \"close failed in file object destructor\" when \"Broken pipe\" happens on stdout - Python tracker Issue 11380; also seen in python - Why

Answer 1

This is a VERY ugly hack to suppress the error message from being shown in case printing to stdout caused a broken pipe (e.g. because a pager process invoked like your-program.py | less was quit without scrolling to the bottom of the output:

try:
    actual_code()
except BrokenPipeError:
    sys.stdout = os.fdopen(1)