How can I disable the webbrowser message in python?
Question: In my python program, when I send the user to create a gmail account by use of
the webbrowser module, python displays:

"Please enter your Gmail username: Created new window in existing browser
session."

Is there any way to get rid of "created new window in existing browser
session", as it takes up the space where the user types in their Gmail
account.

The code for this is:

    
    
    webbrowser.open('https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount?service=mail')  
    gmail_user = raw_input('Please enter your Gmail username: ')
    

**EDIT:** After trying out both of Alex Martelli's suggestions, the code is:
<http://pastebin.com/3uu9QS4A>

**EDIT 2:** I have decided just to tell users to go to the gmail registration
page instead of actually sending them there, as that is much simpler to do and
results in no (currently-unsolvable-by-me) errors.


Answer: As S.Lott hints in a comment, you should probably do the `raw_input` first;
however, that, per se, doesn't suppress the message from `webbrowser`, as you
ask -- it just postpones it.

To actually _suppress_ the message, you can temporarily redirect standard-
output or standard-error -- whichever of the two your chosen browser uses to
emit that message. It's probably no use to redirect them at Python level (via
`sys.stdout` or `sys.stderr`), since your browser is going to be doing its
output directly; rather, you can do it at the operating-system level, e.g.,
for standard output:

    
    
    import os
    gmail_user = raw_input('Please enter your Gmail username: ')
    savout = os.dup(1)
    os.close(1)
    os.open(os.devnull, os.O_RDWR)
    try:
       webbrowser.open(whatever)
    finally:
       os.dup2(savout, 1)
    

(for standard error instead of standard output, use 2 instead of 1). This is
pretty low-level programming, but since the webbrowser module does not give
you "hooks" to control the way in which the browser gets opened, it's pretty
much the only choice to (more or less) ensure suppression of that message.

