suppress scapy warning message when importing the module

Question

I\'m writing a small script, that gathers some information using scapy and then returns some xml code, that I\'ll pass on to the xmlrpc interface of metasploit. I\'d like it tha

Answer 1

With Python3, redefining sys.stderr to None threw an exception AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'write'. Instead, defining it to os.devnull does the job:

import os
import sys
sys.stderr = os.devnull # suppress stderr
from scapy.all import *
sys.stderr = sys.__stderr__ # restore stderr