print suppression

[kjm1102]

Looking for a minimal effort path to turn off a ton of diagnostic prints (with strings & comma separated variables in them) I opted to bulk edit every occurrence of print( to _prnt( where _prnt( is

def _prnt(*args):
  if verbose: print(*args)

thinking I could use the verbose flag to switch the prints on & off at will. This worked right up to the first print with a , end=' ' in it, where it fell over with

TypeError: unexpected keyword argument end

Can someone suggest a solution please? I've googled this to a dead end.

[robert-hh]

You could make end=None a keyword argument of your function, and then proceed depending on the value of end and verbose. like
Another way I have seen for that task is not to use this _prnt() function, but to write all print lines as:

verbose and print(....)

If verbose evaluates to False, the print statement will not be executed.

[cwalther]

How about

def _prnt(*args, **kwargs):
    if verbose: print(*args, **kwargs)

(*args only catches positional arguments)

[kjm1102]

Tnx Chris, 3 out of 3 hat trick

def _prnt(*args, **kwargs): verbose and print(*args, **kwargs)

verbose=1
_prnt('text',2,3,end='  e')
_prnt()
_prnt('this' if verbose else 'that')

>>> 
text 2 3  e
this
>