How to suppress console output in Python?

Question

I\'m using Pygame/SDL\'s joystick module to get input from a gamepad. Every time I call its get_hat() method it prints to the console. This is problematic since

Answer 1

To complete charles's answer, there are two context managers built in to python, redirect_stdout and redirect_stderr which you can use to redirect and or suppress a commands output to a file or StringIO variable.

import contextlib

with contextlib.redirect_stdout(None):
    do_thing()

For a more complete explanation read the docs

A quick update: In some cases passing None might raise some reference errors (e.g. keras.models.Model.fit calls sys.stdout.write which will be problematic), in that case pass an io.StringIO() or os.devnull.