testing - How to test a function's output (stdout/stderr) in unit tests

Question

I have a simple function I want to test:

func (t *Thing) print(min_verbosity int, message string) {
    if t.verbosity >= minv {
        fmt.Print(message)
    }
}

But how can I test what the function actually sends to standard output? Test::Output does what I want in Perl. I know I could write all my own boilerplate to do the same in Go (as described here):

orig = os.Stdout
r,w,_ = os.Pipe()
thing.print("Some message")
var buf bytes.Buffer
io.Copy(&buf, r)
w.Close()
os.Stdout = orig
if(buf.String() != "Some message") {
    t.Error("Failure!")
}

But that's a lot of extra work for every single test. I'm hoping there's a more standard way, or perhaps an abstraction library to handle this.

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