Can I redirect all output to /dev/null from within python?

Question

I'm writing a Python script that'll fork a child process. The parent process should be able to write stuff like Started child at xxxxx, but the child process output should be redirected to /dev/null. How can I do that from within python?

Answer 1

import sys
old_stdout, old_stderr = sys.stdout, sys.stderr
sys.stdout = open('/dev/null', 'w')
sys.stderr = open('/dev/null', 'w')