OutputCatcher 0.0.1

Catches/silences stdout/stderr output.

A context manager that catches/suppresses output from sys.stderr and sys.stdout.

Usage

from outputcatcher import StdErrCatcher, StdOutCatcher

# Catching stdout
with StdOutCatcher(safe=False, maxlength=0) as fakeout:
    print('This is a test. you shouldn\'t see it right away.')
print('Captured stdout: {}'.format(fakeout.output))

# Catching stderr
with StdErrCatcher(safe=False, maxlength=0) as fakeerr:
    print('Testing stderr output.', file=sys.stderr)
print('Captured stderr: {}'.format(fakeerr.output))

API

StdOutCatcher(safe=False, maxlength=0)

Arguments

• safe: If truthy, output is “encoded” using repr(). Default: False

• maxlength: If non-zero, trim each write() call to maxlength. Default: 0