redirect stdout and stderr to null to suppress modules outputs

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/py3status/__init__.py b/py3status/__init__.py
index 68d491f..5d36b2e 100755
--- a/py3status/__init__.py
+++ b/py3status/__init__.py
@@ -601,6 +601,10 @@ class Py3statusWrapper():
         if self.config['debug']:
             syslog(LOG_INFO, 'events thread started')
 
+        # suppress modules' ouput wrt issue #20
+        sys.stdout = open('/dev/null', 'w')
+        sys.stderr = open('/dev/null', 'w')
+
         # load and spawn modules threads
         for include_path, f_name in self.list_modules():
             try: