You can also put the redirection logic in a contextmanager. Might be of use.
import os import sys class RedirectStdStreams(object): def __init__(self, stdout=None, stderr=None): self._stdout = stdout or sys.stdout self._stderr = stderr or sys.stderr def __enter__(self): self.old_stdout, self.old_stderr = sys.stdout, sys.stderr self.old_stdout.flush(); self.old_stderr.flush() sys.stdout, sys.stderr = self._stdout, self._stderr def __exit__(self, exc_type, exc_value, traceback): self._stdout.flush(); self._stderr.flush() sys.stdout = self.old_stdout sys.stderr = self.old_stderr if __name__ == '__main__': devnull = open(os.devnull, 'w') print('Fubar') with RedirectStdStreams(stdout=devnull, stderr=devnull): print("You'll never see me") print("I'm back!")