provide context manager to redirect C output

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
c, python
Domain
operating-systems

Research direction

The issue names no source files, tests, or entry points; first locate the standard-library code responsible for process-level C output. Clarify the intended redirection and restoration behavior, then establish tests showing C output is redirected within the context manager and restored afterward.

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Description

stdlib type-feature
BPO 24500
Nosy @bitdancer, @vadmium, @Zaharid

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GitHub fields:

assignee = None
closed_at = None
created_at = <Date 2015-06-24.16:03:02.893>
labels = ['type-feature', 'library']
title = 'provide context manager to redirect C output'
updated_at = <Date 2016-06-02.16:01:09.912>
user = 'https://github.com/Zaharid'

bugs.python.org fields:

activity = <Date 2016-06-02.16:01:09.912>
actor = 'Zahari.Dim'
assignee = 'none'
closed = False
closed_date = None
closer = None
components = ['Library (Lib)']
creation = <Date 2015-06-24.16:03:02.893>
creator = 'Zahari.Dim'
dependencies = []
files = []
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 24500
keywords = []
message_count = 5.0
messages = ['245760', '245766', '245842', '265095', '266887']
nosy_count = 3.0
nosy_names = ['r.david.murray', 'martin.panter', 'Zahari.Dim']
pr_nums = []
priority = 'normal'
resolution = None
stage = 'needs patch'
status = 'languishing'
superseder = None
type = 'enhancement'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue24500'
versions = ['Python 3.6']

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