Ben Finney wrote: >> I don't think this is possible with the print statement, but the >> print() function can be replaced with anything you like: > > > Hmm. I am more looking for something that doesn't involve replacing > ‘print’, but rather to hook into whatever it uses to coerce the type of > its arguments. Have a look at PyFile_WriteObject in Objects/fileobject.c. As I understand the code it basically does
if isinstance(obj) and stream.encoding is not None: s = obj.encode(stream.encoding)) else: s = str(obj) stream.write(s) There's no way to get the original object. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list