From: Stephen Waits <steve@...>
Date: 2006-03-08T03:29:22+09:00
Subject: Re: How to capture eval's stdout in 1.8?

Stephen Waits wrote:
> My searches have come up empty, and most of what I found refers to 1.6 
> (assigning $defout to a StringIO instance).
> 
> However, under 1.8 this doesn't work because:
> 
> a) assignment to $stdout (which deprecates $defout) is deprecated
> b) $stdout.reopen( StringIO ) doesn't work as reopen expects a true IO 
> instance
> 
> And, for that matter, I couldn't even get it to redirect to a File.
> 
> Seems like it should be easy.. anyone?
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve
> 

Hmm.. I still haven't found the right solution.  I'm starting to worry 
that this might not be possible in 1.8!

--Steve