> While Python provides some helpful methods for moving files and
> directories around (shutil.move, shutil.copytree, etc), none of
> them seem to be able to merge two directories.
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> Any ideas?
It's not pretty, but you could hack up the original copytree()
source so it ignores errors from t
>>> old_print = __builtins__.print
>>> __builtins__.print = printhook
>>> yield
>>> __builtins__.print = old_print
>
>> I'm pretty sure this is semantically equivalent to my original
>> code, but I gave it a try anyway.
>
> Not at all. Declaring "global print" then assigning to "pri
>>> Don't bother. Replacing sys.stdout is the right thing to do. It
>>> won't interfere with the C++ streams...
>> I'm not so certain. Won't the C++ host app share the same
>> stdin/stdout/stderr file descriptors with the embedded Python
>> interpreter?
> No. Changing the object that the name sys
> > Think I'll start a new post with the subject: "Globally override
> > built-in print function?"
> Don't bother. Replacing sys.stdout is the right thing to do. It
> won't interfere with the C++ streams...
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I'm not so certain. Won't the C++ host app share the same
stdin/stdout/stderr file
> > I naively thought I could capture output from exec()'ed print
> > invocations by (somehow) overriding 'print' globally. But this
> > seems not to be possible.
>
>old_print = __builtins__.print
>__builtins__.print = printhook
>yield
>__builtins__.print = old_print
I'm pretty
I naively thought I could capture output from exec()'ed print
invocations by (somehow) overriding 'print' globally. But this
seems not to be possible. Or at least not easy:
c:\d>test.py
Python 2.6.2 (r262:71605, Apr 14 2009, 22:40:02) [MSC v.1500 32 bit
(Intel)] win32
Type "help", "copyright", "
> After your reply, I went back and
> discovered that everything was actually working fine with 'global'
> in place
Oops, I lied. It still doesn't work. It doesn't seem possible (or
at least not easy) to *globally* override the built-in print
function. The best
> > I thought I could get away with importing print_function
> > from __future__ ... but my re-pointed print function never gets
> > called.
> -snip-
> >def __enter__(self):
> >print = self.printhook
> That redefines the print function local to __enter__. You need to
> change the gl
I've subclassed InteractiveInterpreter in an attempt to make it
friendlier for use in a remote console for a C++ app. What I really
wanted to do was wrap/adapt the base class's runsource() method to
return a 2-tuple (more, result) where 'more' is a bool indicating
whether a complete command was re
