How To catch python stdout in c++ code

Question

I have a program which during it\'s run sometimes needs to call python in order to preform some tasks. I need a function that calls python and catches pythons stdout

Answer 1

If I'm reading your question correctly, you want to capture stdout/stderr into a variable within your C++? You can do this by redirecting stdout/stderr into a python variable and then querying this variable into your C++. Please not that I have not done the proper ref counting below:

#include 
#include 

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
    std::string stdOutErr =
"import sys\n\
class CatchOutErr:\n\
    def __init__(self):\n\
        self.value = ''\n\
    def write(self, txt):\n\
        self.value += txt\n\
catchOutErr = CatchOutErr()\n\
sys.stdout = catchOutErr\n\
sys.stderr = catchOutErr\n\
"; //this is python code to redirect stdouts/stderr

    Py_Initialize();
    PyObject *pModule = PyImport_AddModule("__main__"); //create main module
    PyRun_SimpleString(stdOutErr.c_str()); //invoke code to redirect
    PyRun_SimpleString("print(1+1)"); //this is ok stdout
    PyRun_SimpleString("1+a"); //this creates an error
    PyObject *catcher = PyObject_GetAttrString(pModule,"catchOutErr"); //get our catchOutErr created above
    PyErr_Print(); //make python print any errors

    PyObject *output = PyObject_GetAttrString(catcher,"value"); //get the stdout and stderr from our catchOutErr object

    printf("Here's the output:\n %s", PyString_AsString(output)); //it's not in our C++ portion

    Py_Finalize();


    return 0;

}