get print() output

[Skaperen]

Not enough to just redirect stdout?

but how to redirect it back to the caller?  what i am doing now is printing to stdout and piping that to another process that reads it.  the other way i gave up on was printing to a file and reading it back. either too many processes or too slow when i have 600+ of these. since both parts are in python and one is a called function, there has to a more efficient way.

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if there is a way to make StringIO not destroy on .close() that would solve it.