Redirecting stdout/stderr to a file?

[Demetrios Tsillas]

I have some warning which pop up on the console when I run my app and would like to redirect these to either /dev/null or to a log file under /tmp.

I've tried:

    if sys.platform == "linux2":

        sys.stdout = open('/tmp/InstrumentationBrowser.log', 'w')

        sys.stderr = sys.stdout

Unfortunately I still see the warnings:

$ InstrumentationBrowser ~/BB.dat &

[2] 35873

[1]   Done                    InstrumentationBrowser ~/BB.dat

 $ 

(InstrumentationBrowser:35875): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:43:08.556: Could not load a pixbuf from icon theme.

This may indicate that pixbuf loaders or the mime database could not be found.

 $ 

Is there anything in pyinstaller which may help me?

thanks!!!

-Jim.

[Hartmut Goebel]

Hi,

$ InstrumentationBrowser ~/BB.dat &

[2] 35873

[1]   Done                    InstrumentationBrowser ~/BB.dat

 $ 

(InstrumentationBrowser:35875): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:43:08.556: Could not load a pixbuf from icon theme.

This may indicate that pixbuf loaders or the mime database could not be found.

Obviously this warning stems from a C library, which writes to the processes stderr I assume.

sys.stderr is nit the processes stderr, as you can verify with the example below. Thus you need to find a way to change the processes stderr. This is not related to PyInstaller. Anyway if you solve the puzzle blow, please post a solution.

import sys
import subprocess
with open("/tmp/x.log", "w") as sys.stderr:
    subprocess.call("echo foo >&2", shell=True)

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