What is the best way to toggle python prints?

Question

I\'m running Python 2.4 in a game engine and I want to be able to turn off all prints if needed. For example I\'d like to have the prints on for a debug build, and then turn

Answer 1

I've answered this question on a different post but was the question was marked duplicate:

anyhow, here's what I would do:

from __future__ import print_function
DebugPrints = 0

def print(*args, **kwargs):
    if DebugPrints:
        return __builtins__.print(*args, **kwargs)

print('foo') # doesn't get printed
DebugPrints = 1
print('bar') # gets printed

sadly you can't keep the py2 print syntax print 'foo'