Capture stdout
Level: Intermediate (score: 3)
Sometimes you need to capture stdout in your script. Python makes it easy with contextlib
's redirect_stdout
.
In this Bite you will use it to get the length of a help text as returned by help
.
Complete get_len_help_text
which receives a builtin. Run help
against this builtin and capture its output in a variable and return its length (number of chars). If a non-builtin is passed into the function, raise a ValueError
(hint: you can use BuiltinFunctionType
to check this).
Here you see the function in action:
>>> from helplen import get_len_help_text >>> get_len_help_text(max) 402 >>> get_len_help_text(pow) 278 >>> get_len_help_text('bogus') ... ValueError
Good luck and keep calm and code in Python!