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List:       python-distutils-sig
Subject:    Re: [Distutils] Can we prevent setuptools from writing to  stdout
From:       "Phillip J. Eby" <pje () telecommunity ! com>
Date:       2008-09-24 17:39:01
Message-ID: 20080924173755.3AC463A4128 () sparrow ! telecommunity ! com
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At 02:24 PM 9/24/2008 +0100, Fadhley Salim wrote:
>Is it possible to prevent setuptools from writing anything to stdout?
>
>For various inconvenient reasons our package must install silently - 
>that means the installation process must not write to either stdout 
>or stderr. Other than hacking distutils / setuptools to ensure that 
>there's nothing which can write i've not yet been able to come up 
>with a reliable means to control output.

Temporarily replace sys.stdout with another object, such as a StringIO. 

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