Question

About web.py How do I redirrect the output to another output destination
like a log file or get rid of it completely?

Answer 1

Console output by print is sent to sys.stdout. You can replace this stream with an open file or your own file-like object if you want. The only requirement is that your custom object has a write() method.

class MyOutputStream(object):

    def write(self, data):
        pass   # Ignore output

import sys
sys.stdout = MyOutputStream()

print("Test")  # Output is ignored

If you want to access or restore the original output stream, use sys.__stdout__.

sys.stdout = sys.__stdout__  # Restore stdout