CODEWITHSUNDEEP
pythonprinting
Omar Yacop
Omar Yacop

Reputation: 305

How to override the builtin method "print()"

I need to customize the print(), so that it does something else besides printing what I want. Is there a way to override it?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1704

Answers (4)

Ganime Dewer
Ganime Dewer

Reputation: 113

Here is A Page That Will Help You With Overriding Functions!

Here is A Way To Override print! (Making a New print)

Code:

from __future__ import print_function

try:
    import __builtin__
except ImportError:
    import builtins as __builtin__

def print(*args, **kwargs):
    """My custom print() function."""
    __builtin__.print('your text')
    return __builtin__.print(*args, **kwargs)

print()

Output: your text

The Line __builtin__.print('your text') would Print 'Your Text', you can put other function Also Instead of Print, it would Print Your Given Text also As The Return Line Says It to, it used the built in print function!

The Second Thing That you can Do is That You Can Remove The Return Line so The Function wouldn't Print Anything To The Console

Hope This Helps

Upvotes: 5

S2L
S2L

Reputation: 1934

DEBUG=1 # only print when debugging
import datetime

_print = print  # preserve original
def print(*args, **kwargs):
    if DEBUG:
        _print(f"{datetime.datetime.now()} ", end='')
        _print(*args, **kwargs)
    else:
        pass

# ---- regular print usage
print("abc", x, y, z)

Got the idea from here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/70915521/2612429

Upvotes: 0

hiro protagonist
hiro protagonist

Reputation: 46869

one option is to use contextlib.redirect_stdout:

from contextlib import redirect_stdout

with open('file.txt', 'a') as file, redirect_stdout(file):
    print('hello')

if you need both printing and saving to a file, this may work:

from contextlib import redirect_stdout
from sys import stdout
from io import StringIO

class MyOutput(StringIO):
    def __init__(self, file):
        super().__init__()
        self.file = file

    def write(self, msg):
        stdout.write(msg)
        self.file.write(msg)

with open('file.txt', 'a') as file, redirect_stdout(MyOutput(file=file)):
    print('hello')

Upvotes: 1

Mujtaba Mateen
Mujtaba Mateen

Reputation: 202

You can override the print() method but you have to create class and then override the "str" dunder method (print() uses "str" implementation in backend). Here is the code.

a = 2
print(a)

class abc:
    def __init__(self,x):
        self.x = x
    def __str__(self):
        return "The value is " + str(self.x)

a = abc(2)
print(a)

Upvotes: 0

Related Questions