Suppress stdout / stderr print from Python functions

Question

I have a Python script that is using some closed-box Python functions (i.e. I can\'t edit these functions) provided by my employer. When I call these functions, they are pri

Answer 1

Not really requested by the OP, but I needed to hide and store the output, and did like follows:

from io import StringIO
import sys

class Hider:
    def __init__(self, channels=('stdout',)):
        self._stomach = StringIO()
        self._orig = {ch : None for ch in channels}

    def __enter__(self):
        for ch in self._orig:
            self._orig[ch] = getattr(sys, ch)
            setattr(sys, ch, self)
        return self

    def write(self, string):
        self._stomach.write(string)

    def flush(self):
        pass

    def autopsy(self):
        return self._stomach.getvalue()

    def __exit__(self, *args):
        for ch in self._orig:
            setattr(sys, ch, self._orig[ch])

Usage:

with Hider() as h:
    spammy_function()
    result = h.autopsy()

(tested only with Python 3)

EDIT: now allows to select stderr, stdout or both, as in Hider([stdout, stderr])