There could be a global variable, likely set with argparse from sys.argv, that stands for whether the program should be verbose or not.
Then a decorator could be written such that if verbosity was on, then the standard input would be diverted into the null device as long as the function were to run:
import os
from contextlib import redirect_stdout
verbose = False
def louder(f):
def loud_f(*args, **kwargs):
if not verbose:
with open(os.devnull, 'w') as void:
with redirect_stdout(void):
return f(*args, **kwargs)
return f(*args, **kwargs)
return loud_f
@louder
def foo(s):
print(s*3)
foo("bar")
This answer is inspired by this code; actually, I was going to just use it as a module in my program, but I got errors I couldn't understand, so I adapted a portion of it.
The downside of this solution is that verbosity is binary, unlike with logging, which allows for finer-tuning of how verbose the program can be.
Also, all print calls are diverted, which might be unwanted for.