Thanks for the snippet, Was wondering if given as a package option, we might display the module's help info.
Out of curiosity how did you learn about sys.displayhook? Thanks. Kind Regards, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer compileralchemy.com <https://www.compileralchemy.com> | github <https://github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ/> Mauritius On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 11:07 AM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 10:44:02AM +0400, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer wrote: > > > Let's say i have a package. > > > > >>> import package > > >>> package > > <module 'package' from '<path>'> > > > > would it be nice to be able to change the repr of the package to > > > > >>> package > > package something > > some message > > .... > > > > ? > > I don't know, would it be nice? For what purpose? What will the message > be? Where does the message come from? > > The Python shell just prints the repr() of the object. If you want it to > print something different, you can install a custom display hook: > > py> from types import ModuleType > py> def thingy(obj): > ... if isinstance(obj, ModuleType): > ... print("module %s is amazing!" % obj.__name__) > ... print("...and Python is great!") > ... else: > ... print(repr(obj)) > ... > py> sys.displayhook = thingy > py> 'hello' > 'hello' > py> math > module math is amazing! > ...and Python is great! > > > > -- > Steven > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/RBOUOF6XETNU7XP4ZNAG2YRTVFNYDRW5/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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