Assign a print statement to a variable in a function in Python 2.7

Question

I\'m trying to assign a print statement to a variable in a function:

def namer(fn, ln=\'Smith\'):
    # return value, default value
    r = print \"Your name is          


        

Answer 1

Although it doesn't make sense to assign a print statement it makes sense to assign a print function to variable.

In this case you need to use the following import (only if using python 2)

from __future__ import print_function

A possible use case

import logging

use_print = True
if use_print:
    log_fun = print
else:
    log_fun = logging.info

log_fun('Spam')

The following statement will also be syntactically correct but it won't make sense

r = print('Something')

You will end up printing "Something" and assign None to r which is the return value of print function