What is the best way to toggle python prints?

Question

I\'m running Python 2.4 in a game engine and I want to be able to turn off all prints if needed. For example I\'d like to have the prints on for a debug build, and then turn

Answer 1

yes, you can assign sys.stdout to whatever you want. Create a little class with a write method that does nothing:

class DevNull(object):
    def write(self, arg):
        pass

import sys    
sys.stdout = DevNull()
print "this goes to nirvana!"

With the same technique you can also have your prints logged to a file by setting sys.stdout to an opened file object.