Redirecting stdout to GtkTextView

Sibi · **Joined:** Sat Dec 10, 2011 7:13 pm **Posts:** 4

Suppose I have an interface like this consisting of GtkTextView and a button.

And I have code like this:

Code:

import pygtk
import gtk

class sample:
    def __init__(self):
        builder=gtk.Builder()
        builder.add_from_file("sample.xml")
        self.textview=builder.get_object("textview")
        self.ok_button=builder.get_object("ok_button")

    def on_ok(self,button,data=None):
        print "Sample Message"

if __name__ == "__main__":
    obj=sample()
    gtk.main()

Here on_ok function is the handler for the button. Now what i want is that whenever the print statement is executed, i want it's output redirected to the textview. I know that I can use GtkTextBuffer and using set_buffer() I can achieve my objective. But i want the stdout to be redirected since I'm dealing with a proprietary library of python which sends all it's output to stdout.

Micah Carrick · **Posted:** Tue Dec 13, 2011 11:37 pm

You could take a look at how I'm doing it in my Django plugin for gedit (it's using GTK 3 with PyGobject, but the concepts are the same).

https://github.com/Quixotix/gedit-django-project/blob/master/djangoproject/output.py

It adds stdout to a text view as black text and stderr as red text.

Sibi · **Joined:** Sat Dec 10, 2011 7:13 pm **Posts:** 4

Thanks a lot Micah Carrick.

It was exactly what I needed.

And it made my code work.

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