How to hide output of subprocess in Python 2.7

Question

I\'m using eSpeak on Ubuntu and have a Python 2.7 script that prints and speaks a message:

import subprocess
text = \'Hello World.\'
print text
subprocess.ca         


        

Answer 1

As of Python3 you no longer need to open devnull and can call subprocess.DEVNULL.

Your code would be updated as such:

import subprocess
text = 'Hello World.'
print(text)
subprocess.call(['espeak', text], stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL)