https://shocksolution.com/tags/standard-out/Recent content in Standard Out on shocksolution.comHugoen-usSat, 16 Aug 2008 20:47:05 +0000https://shocksolution.com/posts/redirecting-text-output-from-python-functions/Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:47:05 +0000https://shocksolution.com/posts/redirecting-text-output-from-python-functions/<p>Two posts ago, I described how I wrote a function in Python that reads in a binary file from Labview. In my last post, I described using wxPython to write a GUI to process the data from those binary files. Naturally, I called the binary-file-reader function from the GUI. The problem is that the file reader prints a lot of information to the terminal, using Python <strong>print</strong>statements. None of this goes to the GUI, requiring the user to run the GUI from a terminal and keep an eye on the text output, which is inconvenient. However, I don&rsquo;t want to modify the file reader to include GUI-specific code, because that would be less modular and less re-usable. Instead, I learned that Python has a very easy facility to redirect<strong>stdout</strong>, the default destination of the <strong>print</strong> statement. I modified the file reader as follows:</p>