Print Position

A cool python package to add the timestamp, file name and line number in the print statements. This small tool can be very helpful in debugging big Python projects.

Here is the project on pypi.

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Motivation

To debug the Python code present in multiple files, it becomes difficult to track down the print statement calls in the different files. This small pip package can be highly useful in such cases, one can simply use the custom print statement defined in this package and see the filename and line number of the print calls.

How to install?

Just install the package using the command:

pip3 install print-position

Usage

Simply add this import statement on top of your python file to see the time, file name and line number of each print statement.

from print_position import print_pos as print

A simple example is (test_pos.py):

from print_position import print_pos as print
print("Test on line 2 from test.py")
print("Test on line 3 from test.py")

print("Test on line 7 from test.py")

The output is shown as:

@file_name:line_number
print_data

If you want to also see the timestamp, just use the print_pos_time function like this:

from print_position import print_pos_time as print

A simple example is (test_pos_time.py):

from print_position import print_pos_time as print
print("Test on line 2 from test.py")
print("Test on line 3 from test.py")

print("Test on line 7 from test.py")

The output is shown as:

time:@file_name:line_number
print_data

I believe this would be very helpful in tracking down errors during debugging, especially when you are working with someone else's code.

Changelog

2.0.1:

• Added another function to print the time of the print call.
• Restructured the project to improve imports.

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