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    redirecting python's "print" statements to a file

    7 October, 2005 - 12:05
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    Something I find annoying about writing a program/script that writes to text files is that you explicitly have to write the linefeeds (things like "\n", "\r", "\r\n" or std::endl). I remember Pascal having something like a writeln() function, which was very handy when I spend my time programming in TurboPascal, but it's no real incentive at all to return to the "begin...end" mess of Pascal. Apparently java has a writeln function too.

    In Python you have the print statement, which also silently appends a linefeed (unless you end the statement with a comma). The default behaviour of print is to write to the standard output, but you can redirect this to files or other writable objects (technically all objects that have a write method). That way you can use short, simple and clear print statements instead of those cluttered object.write( "wello horld" + "\n") constructs.

    The first technique is based on redirecting sys.stdout by assigning a writable object (such as a file object) to it. The print statements that follow will write to that object, instead of the default standard output. The drawback is that you should remember to reset sys.stdout to sys.__stdout__ if you want your default standard output back.

    The second technique came to my attention when I reread Learning Python for the second time. It involves redirecting the print statement directly as follows:

    print >>output, "wello horld"

    in which output is a writable object.

    As an illustration, consider the following script:

    #!/usr/bin/python
    import sys
     
    # a simple class with a write method
    class WritableObject:
        def __init__(self):
            self.content = []
        def write(self, string):
            self.content.append(string)
     
    # example with redirection of sys.stdout
    foo = WritableObject()                   # a writable object
    sys.stdout = foo                         # redirection
    print "one, two, three, four"            # some writing
    print "little hat"
    print "little hat"
    sys.stdout = sys.__stdout__              # remember to reset sys.stdout!
    print "foo's content:", foo.content                # show the result of the writing
     
    # example with redirection of the print statement
    bar = WritableObject()                   # another writable object
    print >>bar, "one, two, three, four"     # some (redirected) writing
    print >>bar, "little hat made of paper"
    print "bar's content:", bar.content                # the result

    the output of this script is

    foo's content: ['one, two, three, four', '\n', 'little hat', '\n', 'little hat', '\n']
    bar's content: ['one, two, three, four', '\n', 'little hat made of paper', '\n']

    In a more real life situation (for example with file objects to write to), this can be very handy and keeps you code cleaner and more human readable.

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