Is it possible to "hack" Python's print function?

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08:43 Answer 2 (Score 38)
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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49271750/is-it-possible-to-hack-pythons-print-function

Question links:
[question]: https://stackoverflow.com/q/49271187/4909087
[comment]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49271187/how-to-change-a-string-in-a-function-when-calling-a-function/49271219?noredirec

Accepted answer links:
[bytecode]: https://github.com/vstinner/bytecode
[byteplay]: https://github.com/serprex/byteplay
[a C API to access the objects]: https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/unicode.html#creating-and-accessing-unicode-strings
[you can use ]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/ctypes.html#accessing-values-exported-from-dlls
[read the header files]: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Include/unicodeobject.h
[superhackyinternals]: https://github.com/abarnert/superhackyinternals

Answer 2 links:
[print]: https://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#print
[redirect_stdout]: https://docs.python.org/library/contextlib.html#contextlib.redirect_stdout

Answer 4 links:
[ob_start]: http://php.net/manual/en/function.ob-start.php
[ob_get_contents]: http://php.net/manual/en/function.ob-get-contents.php

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