How do I capture stderr from Fabric's local command?

Question

Fabric v1.4.3 does not capture the output of 'python --version'

def python_v():
    m = local('python --version', capture=True)
    print(m)

Answer 1

local with capture=True returns the command's stdout; a simple test shows that python --version prints the version info on stderr. So, you can try to redirect stderr to stdout in the command:

m = local('python --version 2>&1', capture=True)

Answer 2

I find the following way cleaner than the accepted answer:

print m.stderr

(Thanks remosu!)