I am accessing spatialite via Python using the sqlite3 module. It is working very nicely except in spatialite 4.3.0a in spatialite.c calls to dump_shapefile load_shapefile_ex2 are called with verbose=1 which causes it to write to stderr.

It would be nice if there were some way to control this either in the SQL or by setting some global override maybe like:

select spatialite_config('verbose', 0);

or something like that. Or maybe the default should just be that is off in the released code.

-Steve

I assume that following is meant:
load_shapefile_ex3:

    if (verbose)
	spatialite_e
	    ("========\nLoading shapefile at '%s' into SQLite table '%s'\n",
	     shp_path, table);

spatialite_e
spatialite_i
and in debuging modus: spatialite_d

so influencing this during run-time is difficult

so that it will not interfer with normal data output.

without interfering with desired output

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6735917/redirecting-stdout-to-nothing-in-python

import os
import sys
f = open(os.devnull, 'w')
sys.stdout = f

# real world:
python myprogram.py 2> /dev/null
# windows world:
python myprogram.py 2> nul

both outputs will be transported to the 'land of nothing'

easily be accomplished by the user in a standard, designed way

I will defer the final decision on this to Sandro.