Is there a way to check whether function output is assigned to a variable in Python?

Question

In Python, I\'d like to write a function that would pretty-print its results to the console if called by itself (mostly for use interactively or for debugging). For the purpose

Answer 1

There's no use case for this. Python assigns all interactive results to a special variable named _.

You can do the following interactively. Works great. No funny business.

>>> check_status()
{'cond_op': 1, 't_canoncharge': 1342, 'stage_booster': 5, 'range_est_sigma': 0.023, 'fuel_est': 32557154, 'beer_type': 31007, 'beer_temp': 2, 'catchphrase_suggestion': 1023, 'virtual_on': 'hell yes'}

>>> pprint.pprint( _ )
{'beer_temp': 2,
 'beer_type': 31007,
 'catchphrase_suggestion': 1023,
 'cond_op': 1,
 'fuel_est': 32557154,
 'range_est_sigma': 0.023,
 'stage_booster': 5,
 't_canoncharge': 1342,
 'virtual_on': 'hell yes'}