Suppressing output of module calling outside library

Question

I have an annoying problem when using machine learning library PyML. PyML uses libsvm to train the SVM classifier. The problem is that libsvm outputs some text to standard o

Answer 1

Open /dev/null for writing, use os.dup() to copy stdout, and use os.dup2() to copy your open /dev/null to stdout. Use os.dup2() to copy your copied stdout back to the real stdout after.

devnull = open('/dev/null', 'w')
oldstdout_fno = os.dup(sys.stdout.fileno())
os.dup2(devnull.fileno(), 1)
makesomenoise()
os.dup2(oldstdout_fno, 1)