Copy Stdout to string

[sophie_newbie]

Hi, I'm wondering if its possible to copy all of stdout's output to a
string, while still being able to print on screen. I know you can
capture stdout, but I still need the output to appear on the screen
also...

Thanks!

[Gerard Flanagan]

On Apr 1, 4:03 pm, sophie_newbie <[e-mail]:

Hi, I'm wondering if its possible to copy all of stdout's output to a
string, while still being able to print on screen. I know you can
capture stdout, but I still need the output to appear on the screen
also...

Thanks!

I don't know if it's what you want, but if you're talking about the
output of a single command, then the following (or a variation) should
do. (using 'svn info' as the command).

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import subprocess
from cStringIO import StringIO
import sys

buf = StringIO()

def popen(cmdline):
return subprocess.Popen(cmdline,
stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
stderr=subprocess.STDOUT).stdout

for line in popen('svn info'):
print >sys.stdout, 'out: ' + line,
print >buf, 'buf: ' + line,

print

print buf.getvalue()
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[sophie_newbie]

On Apr 1, 3:03 pm, sophie_newbie <[e-mail]:

Hi, I'm wondering if its possible to copy all of stdout's output to a
string, while still being able to print on screen. I know you can
capture stdout, but I still need the output to appear on the screen
also...

Thanks!

I found this, it pretty much does the job, easily modified to write to
a variable instead of a file:

http://www.answermysearches.com/pyth...-same-time/52/