# # shutup.py: context manager for ignoring overly verbose output # # Copyright (C) 2015 Red Hat, Inc. # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published # by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License # along with this program. If not, see . import os from contextlib import contextmanager @contextmanager def shutup(): """Run something with stdout and stderr redirected to /dev/null The redirections will be process-wide, so this is not recommended for multithreaded applications. """ # Wrap the whole thing a try-finally to ensure errors don't leak file descriptor old_stdout = None old_stderr = None devnull_fd = None try: # Save the current file descriptors old_stdout = os.dup(1) old_stderr = os.dup(2) # Redirect to /dev/null # Try to undo partial redirects if something goes wrong devnull_fd = os.open(os.devnull, os.O_WRONLY) try: os.dup2(devnull_fd, 1) os.dup2(devnull_fd, 2) except: os.dup2(old_stderr, 2) os.dup2(old_stdout, 1) raise # Run the body. Cleanup in finally to ensure stderr is restored before # an exception is raised. try: yield finally: os.dup2(old_stderr, 2) os.dup2(old_stdout, 1) finally: if old_stdout is not None: os.close(old_stdout) if old_stderr is not None: os.close(old_stderr) if devnull_fd is not None: os.close(devnull_fd)