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From: MRAB on 9 Aug 2010 22:49 Rene Veerman wrote: > hi. > > for 2 open source components of mine that are used in debugging, i > would like to capture the output generated by print for any variable. > i'm new to python, so please excuse my noobishness. > > i don't know if objects can be json-ed as easy as lists and hash > tables are by print. > and i couldn't find how to capture the output generated by print into > a string, so i can't use it with google appengine :( > > i'm in dire need of some expert advise here. > Lookup the 'StringIO' module (Python 2.x): from StringIO import StringIO import sys old_stdout = sys.stdout saved_output = StringIO() try: sys.stdout = saved_output print "Hello world!" finally: sys.stdout = old_stdout print saved_output.getvalue() |