Prints out python variables in an easy to read way, handy for debugging
Project description
A collection of handy functions for printing out variables and debugging code.
print() was too hard to read, pprint wasn’t much better. I was also getting sick of typing: print "var = ", var.
This tries to print out variables with their name, and for good measure, it also prints where the pout function was called from, so you can easily find it and delete it when you’re done.
Methods
pout.v(arg1, [arg2, …]) – easy way to print variables
example
foo = 1
pout.v(foo)
bar = [1, 2, [3, 4], 5]
pout.v(bar)
should print something like:
foo = 1 (/file.py:line) bar (4) = [ 0: 1, 1: 2, 2: [ 0: 3, 1: 4 ], 3: 5 ] (/file.py:line)
You can send as many variables as you want into the call
# pass in as many variables as you want
pout.v(foo, bar, che)
# a multi-line call is also fine
pout.v(
foo,
bar
)
pout.h() – easy way to print “here” in the code
example
pout.h(1)
# do something else
pout.h(2)
# do even more of something else
pout.h()
Should print something like:
here 1 (/file.py:line) here 2 (/file.py:line) here (/file.py:line)
pout.t() – print a backtrace
Prints a nicely formatted backtrace, by default this should compact system python calls (eg, anything in dist-packages) which makes the backtrace easier for me to follow.
example:
pout.t()
should print something like:
15 - C:\Python27\lib\runpy.py:162 14 - C:\Python27\lib\runpy.py:72 13 - C:\Python27\lib\unittest\__main__.py:12 12 - C:\Python27\lib\unittest\main.py:95 11 - C:\Python27\lib\unittest\main.py:229 10 - C:\Python27\lib\unittest\runner.py:151 09 - C:\Python27\lib\unittest\suite.py:65 08 - C:\Python27\lib\unittest\suite.py:103 07 - C:\Python27\lib\unittest\suite.py:65 06 - C:\Python27\lib\unittest\suite.py:103 05 - C:\Python27\lib\unittest\suite.py:65 04 - C:\Python27\lib\unittest\suite.py:103 03 - C:\Python27\lib\unittest\case.py:376 02 - C:\Python27\lib\unittest\case.py:318 01 - C:\Projects\Pout\_pout\src\test_pout.py:50 pout.t()
pout.p([title]) – quick and dirty profiling
example
p("starting profile")
time.sleep(1)
p() # stop the "starting profile" session
# you can go N levels deep
p("one")
p("two")
time.sleep(0.5)
p() # stop profiling of "two"
time.sleep(0.5)
p() # stop profiling of "one"
# you can also use with
with p("benchmarking"):
time.sleep(0.5)
should print something like:
starting profile - 1008.2 ms start: 1368137723.7 (/file/path:n) stop: 1368137724.71(/file/path:n) one > two - 509.2 ms start: 1368137722.69 (/file/path:n) stop: 1368137723.2(/file/path:n) one - 1025.9 ms start: 1368137722.68 (/file/path:n) stop: 1368137723.7(/file/path:n)
pout.x([exit_code]) – like sys.exit(exit_code)
This just prints out where it was called from, so you can remember where you exited the code while debugging
example:
pout.x()
will print something like this before exiting with an exit code of 1:
exit (/file/path:n)
pout.b([title[, rows[, sep]]]) – prints lots of lines to break up output
This is is handy if you are printing lots of stuff in a loop and you want to break up the output into sections.
example:
pout.b()
pout.b('this is the title')
pout.b('this is the title 2', 5)
pout.b('this is the title 3', 3, '=')
Would result in output like:
******************************************************************************** (/file/path:n) ****************************** this is the title ******************************* (/file/path:n) ******************************************************************************** ******************************************************************************** ***************************** this is the title 2 ****************************** ******************************************************************************** ******************************************************************************** (/file/path:n) ================================================================================ ============================= this is the title 3 ============================== =============================================================================== (/file/path:n)
pout.c(str1, [str2, …]) – print info about each char in each str
Kind of like od -c on the command line.
example:
pout.c('this')
will print something like:
Total Characters: 4 t 't' \u0074 LATIN SMALL LETTER T h 'h' \u0068 LATIN SMALL LETTER H i 'i' \u0069 LATIN SMALL LETTER I s 's' \u0073 LATIN SMALL LETTER S (/file/path:n)
This could fail if Python isn’t compiled with 4 byte unicode support, just something to be aware of, but chances are, if you don’t have 4 byte unicode supported Python, you’re not doing much with 4 byte unicode.
pout.s(arg1, [arg2, …]) – easy way to return pretty versions of variables
Just like pout.v() but will return the value as a string
pout.ss(arg1, [arg2, …]) – easy way to return pretty versions of variables without meta information
Just like pout.vv() but will return the value as a string
Customizing Pout
object magic method
Any class object can define a __pout__ magic method, similar to Python’s built in __str__ magic method that can return a customized string of the object if you want to. This method can return anything, it will be run through Pout’s internal stringify methods to convert it to a string and print it out.
pout.pout_class
You can create your own class and set this module variable and any pout method will then use your custom class:
class PoutChild(pout.Pout):
pass
# any pout.* calls will now use your child class, customize as you like
pout.pout_class = PoutChild
Console commands
pout.json
running a command on the command line that outputs a whole a bunch of json? Pout can help:
$ some-command-that-outputs-json | pout.json
pout.char
Runs pout.c but on the output from a command line script:
$ echo "some string with chars to analyze" | pout.char
Install
Use PIP
pip install pout
Generally, the pypi version and the github version shouldn’t be that out of sync, but just in case, you can install from github also:
pip install git+https://github.com/Jaymon/pout#egg=pout
Make Pout easier to use
Add pout to a configuration file for your app
If, like me, you hate having to constantly do import pout at the top of every module you want to use pout in, you can put this snippet of code in your dev environment so you no longer have to import pout:
# handy for dev environment, make pout available to all modules without an import
import __builtin__
try:
import pout
__builtin__.pout = pout
except ImportError:
pass
Read more on what the above snippet does.
Add pout to usercustomize.py
run this in terminal:
$ python -c "import site; site._script()"
if at the end you see something like this:
USER_BASE: '/home/USERNAME/.local' (exists) USER_SITE: '/home/USERNAME/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages' (exists) ENABLE_USER_SITE: True
that means you can add a usercustomize.py module:
$ mkdir -p ~/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages $ touch ~/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/usercustomize.py
that will be included every time python is ran and so you can put this code in:
import __builtin__
try:
import pout
__builtin__.pout = pout
except ImportError:
pass
Add pout to sitecustomize.py
run this in terminal:
$ python -c "import site; print site.getsitepackages()[0]
That should print out a good place to add a sitecustomize.py file. Create that file and include the pout import code in it.
Add pout to site.py
If none of the above options work for you, you can also actually edit Python’s site.py file. If you do this, you should most definitely only ever do it on your dev box in your dev environment, I would NOT do something like this on a production server:
1 - Find the site.py file for your python installation
You can find where your python installation lives through the Python shell:
$ python >>> import sys >>> sys.prefix '/path/to/python/install'
2 - Go to that directory’s lib/pythonX.Y directory
So, if you were using Python 2.7, you would go to /path/to/python/install/lib/python2.7
3 - edit the site.py file
add this to somewhere near the end of the site.py file
try:
import pout
__builtin__.pout = pout
except ImportError:
pass
4 - Now any python code will be able to use pout without you having to explicitely import it.
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