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

If you are on a Debian or Ubuntu machine you can just simply recompile pygame without the messages.

cd /tmp
sudo apt-get build-dep pygame
apt-get source pygame
vim pygame-1.9.1release+dfsg/src/joystick.c
# search for the printf("SDL.. messages and put a // in front
apt-get source --compile pygame
sudo dpkg -i python-pygame_1.9.1release+dfsg-9ubuntu1_amd64.deb

Greetings Max