burger.Interceptstdout Class Reference

Handy class for capturing stdout from tools and python itself. More...

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Public Member Functions
	__init__ (self)
	Declares the internal variables.
	__enter__ (self)
	Invoked on "with" which intercepts all future stdout.
	__exit__ (self, *args)
	Disconnect the stdout and store the items into a list of lines.

Protected Attributes
	_stdout = None
	Saved copy of sys.stdout.
	_stringio = None
	StringIO to redirect output to.

Detailed Description

Handy class for capturing stdout from tools and python itself.

Examples

# Import the class
from burger import Interceptstdout
 
# Instanciate the class, which intercepts stdout

with Interceptstdout() as output: do_somethingthatprints()

    print("capture me!")
 
# Once out of scope, output has a list of strings
# of the captured stdout output.
print(output)

Member Function Documentation

__exit__()

burger.Interceptstdout.__exit__	(		self,
		*	args )

Disconnect the stdout and store the items into a list of lines.

Using splitlines(), output the buffer into a list of lines into the output field.