From bee66d3cb98e740f9d8057eb7f503122052ca5d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 26 May 2021 07:43:37 -0700 Subject: bpo-41147: [doc] contextlib.redirect_stdout() provides the new stream as context var (GH-21199) (GH-26380) (cherry picked from commit 46db39d7bd67fb9fea133cd4f18cdf7eacb0f6d9) Co-authored-by: Peter Law --- Doc/library/contextlib.rst | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/contextlib.rst b/Doc/library/contextlib.rst index aa848df..3dcedf7 100644 --- a/Doc/library/contextlib.rst +++ b/Doc/library/contextlib.rst @@ -236,10 +236,11 @@ Functions and classes provided: For example, the output of :func:`help` normally is sent to *sys.stdout*. You can capture that output in a string by redirecting the output to an - :class:`io.StringIO` object:: + :class:`io.StringIO` object. The replacement stream is returned from the + ``__enter__`` method and so is available as the target of the + :keyword:`with` statement:: - f = io.StringIO() - with redirect_stdout(f): + with redirect_stdout(io.StringIO()) as f: help(pow) s = f.getvalue() -- cgit v0.12