How to redirect stderr in Python? Via Python C API?

Question

This is a combination of my two recent questions:
[1] Python instance method in C
[2] How to redirect stderr in Python?

I would like to log the output of bot

Answer 1

Just make a module object (you're doing that anyway, if you're using the C API!-) and make it have a suitable write function -- that module object will be suitable as the second argument to PySys_SetObject.

In my answer to your other question I pointed you to xxmodule.c, an example file in Python's C sources, which is a module with a lot of examples including types and functions of various kinds -- you can work from there even if (mysteriously to me) you consider the "make a new type" part too difficult;-).

Edit: here's a trivial working example (aview.py):

#include "Python.h"
#include 

static PyObject *
aview_write(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
{
    const char *what;
    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "s", &what))
        return NULL;
    printf("==%s==", what);
    return Py_BuildValue("");
}

static PyMethodDef a_methods[] = {
    {"write", aview_write, METH_VARARGS, "Write something."},
    {NULL, NULL, 0, NULL}
};

PyMODINIT_FUNC
initaview(void)
{
    PyObject *m = Py_InitModule("aview", a_methods);
    if (m == NULL) return;
    PySys_SetObject("stdout", m);
}

Once this aview module is properly installed:

$ python
Python 2.5.4 (r254:67917, Dec 23 2008, 14:57:27) 
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5363)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import aview
>>> print 'ciao'
==ciao====
==>>> 

...any string emitted to standard output is written with == signs around it (and this print calls .write twice: with 'ciao', and then again with a newline).