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

I had the same problem and fixed it like that:

from cStringIO import StringIO

def wrapped_svm_predict(*args):
    """Run :func:`svm_predict` with no *stdout* output."""
    so, sys.stdout = sys.stdout, StringIO()
    ret = svm_predict(*args)
    sys.stdout = so
    return ret