#🔒 How Could I Turn That Last Printed Line Into A Variable?

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crude fractal
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How could I turn the last printed line in the terminal into a variable? I know 99/100 times it is more practical to get the variable then print that, but I have a script that relies on printing random things and getting whatever the output of that is. Thank you in advance!

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@crude fractal

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crystal cedar
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stuff printed is written to stdout... you could use contextlib.redirect_stdout to redirect all stdout to a file-like object (e.g. from io module).
or use a file-like object from io module and the use the file= keyword argument in all of your prints.

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!e

import io
import contextlib

output = io.StringIO()
with contextlib.redirect_stdout(output):
    print('This is written to `output`')
    print(123, 'abc')
    print([1,2,3,4,5])

value = output.getvalue()
print(f'{value=}')
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@crystal cedar :white_check_mark: Your 3.12 eval job has completed with return code 0.

value='This is written to `output`\n123 abc\n[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]\n'
crystal cedar
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f = io.StringIO()
print('hello world', file=f)
``` that's the alternative, if you want it only on a single print
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(though you could just store it in a variable to begin with)

static tulip
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is the printing random things coming from another process?

crude fractal
crystal cedar
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io

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I use it in the snippet right afterwards

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