hi
first post here :)
i have a recurring use pattern where i want to save to file everything i
print to the screen. i have used the standard logging module and found it
too cumbersome for my simple use case, and i find myself changing all my
print()'s to custom myprint()'s. i am interested in suggesting several
additions to the standard libraries, as i feel this use case is common
enough, important enough, and currently painful enough to justify such
changes, and that all four of the following suggestions could be useful in
a complementary fashion.
1. allow the print() "file" argument to take a list of streams (currently
it can take only a single stream). e.g:
with open('output.txt', 'w') as f:
print('hello', file=[sys.stdout, f])
this seems like the quickest and least resistant path for the user. need to
decide how multiple streams will work with the flush argument.
2. modify contextlib.redirect_stdout() to take an additional boolean
argument which we can call tee/replicate/duplicate/clone etc. when True it
will duplicate instead of just redirecting:
with open('output.txt', 'w') as f:
with redirect_stdout(f, tee=True): # will duplicate instead of
redirecting
print('hello')
or we could add a new context manager contextlib.copy_stdout()
3. allow the contextlib.redirect_stdout() "new_target" argument to take a
list of streams, or allow specifying multiple arguments for multiple
streams. e.g:
with open('output.txt', 'w') as f:
with redirect_stdout(sys.stdout, f): # or redirect_stdout([sys.stdout,
f])
print('hello')
this has the benefit over the tee argument of allowing more than one
additional stream, but you need to explicitly specify stdout. so would be
nice to have both modifications.
4. add to the standard io library a new class which gives you the write
interface of a single stream, but is a wrapper that will write to multiple
streams:
with open('output.txt', 'w') as f:
multi = io.OutputStreamCollection(sys.stdout, f)
multi.write('hello\n')
# or: print('hello', file=multi)
this is similar to:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9130755/wrapper-to-write-to-multiple-streams,
and we need to decide about the rest of the stream methods.
eyal.
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