Intercept function and method calls
Project description
Intercepts
Intercepts allows you to intercept any function call in Python and handle it in any manner you choose. For example, you can pre-process the inputs to a function, or apply post-processing on its output. Intercepts also allows you to completely replace a function with a custom implementation.
>>> increment(41)
42
>>> intercepts.register(increment, handler)
>>> increment(41)
40
>>> intercepts.unregister(increment)
>>> intercepts.register(increment, handler2)
>>> increment(41)
'The answer is: 42'
>>> intercepts.unregister_all()
Handler functions receive the intercepted function as their first argument, as well as all of the arguments to the intercepted function.
>>> def handler(func, num):
... result = func(num)
... return num - (result - num)
>>> def handler2(func, *args, **kwargs):
... return "The answer is: %s" % func(*args, **kwargs)
The intercepts module also allows intercepting python built-in functions, such as print
and sorted
. For best results, the intercepts module should be the first module imported.
>>> def print_handler(print_func, message):
... return print_func(''.join(reversed(message)))
>>> print("Hello world")
Hello world
>>> intercepts.register(print, print_handler)
>>> print("Hello world")
dlrow olleH
Requirements
Intercepts requires python 3.5+. There are currently no additional dependencies.
Installation
Intercepts can be installed using pip
.
$ pip install intercepts
Or, use pip
to install the latest version from the github source.
$ pip install -U git+https://github.com/dlshriver/intercepts.git@master
Documentation
Some documentation is available here.
This software is in early stages of development and may be unstable.
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