IDLE - Customizing output format

[Robert Kern]

Ilias Lazaridis wrote:
> Robert Kern wrote:

>> Anyways, against my better judgement, I will tell you that you can customize the
>> output by replacing sys.displayhook with your own function:
>>
>>    http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-sys.html
>>
>>  >>> import sys
>>  >>> 1
>> 1
>>  >>> def f(obj):
>> 	print '    ' + repr(obj)
>>
>>  >>> sys.displayhook = f
>>  >>> 1
>>      1
>>  >>>
> 
> I've placed this code within /Lib/sitecustomize.py, but have one
> strange result:
> 
>>>> from talker import *
>>>> t = Talker()
>>>> t.sayHello
>   : <bound method Talker.sayHello of <talker.Talker instance at
> 0x00DEA198>>
>>>> t.sayHello()
> Hello world
>   : None
> 
> 1st: "Hello world" comes still on the beginning.

Yes. Read the doc for sys.displayhook() and you will understand why.

> 2nd: I got this "None"

Yes. Read the doc for sys.displayhook() and you will understand why.

I did not give you an all-singing, all-dancing solution, just showed you that 
you *can* customize the output that you said you wanted customized.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco