[libvirt-users] libvirt printing to stderr

I'm writing an app and using the Python bindings for libvirt. Everything is fine but, in some cases I need to call lookupByName(). There are a lot of times when the name will not exist, I trap the exception, however I still get this message printed to stderr: libvir: QEMU error : Domain not found: no domain with matching name 'foo' Is there any way to turn this off? This is a command-line program so the extra output makes the interface confusing. I've tried re-assigning sys.stderr before calling lookupByName(), but that doesn't seem to have any affect. tia, -albert