Can I redirect the stdout in python into some sort of string buffer?

Question

I\'m using python\'s ftplib to write a small FTP client, but some of the functions in the package don\'t return string output, but print to stdout.

Answer 1

There is contextlib.redirect_stdout() function in Python 3.4:

import io
from contextlib import redirect_stdout

with io.StringIO() as buf, redirect_stdout(buf):
    print('redirected')
    output = buf.getvalue()

Here's code example that shows how to implement it on older Python versions.