New APIs to write to sys.stdout or sys.stderr using a printf-like interface. Adapted from code submitted by Just van Rossum. PySys_WriteStdout(format, ...) PySys_WriteStderr(format, ...) The first function writes to sys.stdout; the second to sys.stderr. When there is a problem, they write to the real (C level) stdout or stderr; no exceptions are raised (but a pending exception may be cleared when a new exception is caught). Both take a printf-style format string as their first argument followed by a variable length argument list determined by the format string. *** WARNING *** The format should limit the total size of the formatted output string to 1000 bytes. In particular, this means that no unrestricted "%s" formats should occur; these should be limited using "%.<N>s where <N> is a decimal number calculated so that <N> plus the maximum size of other formatted text does not exceed 1000 bytes. Also watch out for "%f", which can print hundreds of digits for very large numbers.