How to clear terminal output when opening URL using webbrowser in python?

Question

I am using webbrowser to open a URL using Python but the problem is after opening the URL webbrowser module prints unnecessary output on terminal.

I searched on google but didn't find any useful answer.

Code used:

import webbrowser

webbrowser.open("https://www.google.com/")

I just want to get rid of browser output in terminal not the whole output.

boxama · Answer 1 · 2017-08-27T15:08:51.433

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You're looking for I/O redirection:

python script.py >/dev/null 2>&1

>/dev/null redirects stdout to /dev/null, preventing the terminal from outputting it.

2>&1 redirects stderr to stdout, which is then sent to /dev/null, to hide errors.

edited Aug 27 '17 at 15:08

answered Aug 27 '17 at 15:02

boxama

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Note this affects the output of the entire script. – theonlygusti Aug 27 '17 at 15:03
@theonlygusti I just want to get rid of those browsers output on control – Vaibhav Singh Aug 27 '17 at 15:18
You could also do output redirection with a context manager, as explained in this answer. https://stackoverflow.com/a/17752455/1977847 – Håken Lid Aug 27 '17 at 15:19

How to clear terminal output when opening URL using webbrowser in python?

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