>> The reason I thinks about this is I need to implement a debug print for my
>> program; very simple, a function/print statement that conditionally prints
>> its message whether a bool is true. Not overly complex.
>>
>> I tried this by overshadowing the print keyword, but that obviously didn't
>> work.. Is defining a two-liner function the right way to go
>
> yup. something like this might be useful:
>
> def printif(cond, fmt, *args):
> if cond: print fmt % args
or, perhaps more useful in your case:
if my_debug_flag:
def debug(fmt, *args):
print fmt % args
else:
def debug(*args): pass
debug("hello!")
debug("the value is %d", value)
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