Stop Python Module from Printing

Question

I am using a module called eventregistry, which is a toolkit for using an external API.

When the connection is made with the server, I call this method on their module (imported as e_r).

er = e_r.EventRegistry(apiKey="1234")

The module method then internally prints:

using user provided API key for making requests
Event Registry host: http://eventregistry.org

Which just clogs up my console, which I only want to print on when one of my data sources throws an error. I'm doing multiple requests to this datasource, and its really getting very messy in the console!

Is anyone aware of some kind of "stopPrint()" function that allows me to call methods and run functions, but stop them printing to console?

E.g.

er = stopPrint(e_r.EventRegistry(apiKey="1234"))

[This](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2125702/how-to-suppress-console-output-in-python) might help here? Looks like a workaround, but might be the way.. — rammelmueller, Mar 22 '17 at 13:12

score 6 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 23 '20 at 09:51

Without editing the module you can reroute the stdout for a while.

import sys
import os

def stopPrint(func, *args, **kwargs):
    with open(os.devnull,"w") as devNull:
        original = sys.stdout
        sys.stdout = devNull
        func(*args, **kwargs)
        sys.stdout = original 

stopPrint(e_r.EventRegistry,apiKey="1234")

Better, you can register a suppressed function by replacing the methods with a wrapped version by using something similar to the decorator pattern.

def suppressOutput(func):
    def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
        with open(os.devnull,"w") as devNull:
            original = sys.stdout
            sys.stdout = devNull
            func(*args, **kwargs)
            sys.stdout = original
    return wrapper

e_r.EventRegistry = suppressOutput(e_r.EventRegistry)

# As many times as I want, stdout should always be suppressed. 
e_r.EventRegistry(apiKey="1234")
e_r.EventRegistry(apiKey="1234")
e_r.EventRegistry(apiKey="1234")
e_r.EventRegistry(apiKey="1234")

And just for the trifecta of solutions here is a context manager based approach!!

from contextlib import contextmanager
import sys
import os

@contextmanager
def suppressStream(stream):
    with open(os.devnull, "w") as devNull:
        orig = stream
        stream = devNull
        try:  
            yield
        finally:
            stream = orig

with suppressStream(sys.stdout):
    e_r.EventRegistry(apiKey="1234")

with suppressStream(sys.stderr):
    e_r.EventRegistry(apiKey="1234")

The first solution produced this error: 'I/O operation on closed file'. Could be because after I create the 'er' instance, more methods are used on it in order to query the API — Lewis Anderson, Mar 22 '17 at 14:45
The second one gives an error' 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'execQuery'', I'm assuming this is becuase of a similar reason where the er instance is not properly created, hence the queries cannot be run on it — Lewis Anderson, Mar 22 '17 at 14:48
I think its becuase I was fully releasing the stdout filehandle. Ive updated some code in the answer. — gbtimmon, Mar 23 '17 at 20:15

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 22 '17 at 13:18

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One way of doing this is just to edit the module itself. Simply open EventRegistry.py and remove the

if apiKey:
    print("using user provided API key for making requests")

and

print("Event Registry host: %s" % (self._host))

lines of code. You may then need to reinstall the module with setup.py.

answered Mar 22 '17 at 13:18

Sadie LaBounty

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This was what I was trying to avoid doing, thanks anyways though – Lewis Anderson Mar 22 '17 at 14:50

Stop Python Module from Printing

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