Support output to stdout?

[skorokithakis]

Sometimes it's impractical to read files in the system (e.g. when running in Docker), but the console is still functional. Can q support a flag that will allow it to print the output to stdout rather than to a file?

[v-python]

Needs to be more general that a flag for stdout. Granted the lightning talk showed potential issues with stdout and stderr, but sometimes they would be the best place. And sometimes, a user-specified file would be best, when running multiple processes with q concurrently, for example, having their output interleaved in one file would not always be appropriate (if that is even possible, not sure what file open modes q uses, hopefully shared and append, but still the ability for separate processes to use separate output files would be better, sometmes)

[skorokithakis]

@zestyping What do you think about this? I would also like to reiterate my plea to add this project to Code Shelter, as this issue has gone unanswered for more than two years now.

[ushuz]

Would love to have the ability to output to stdout. For example:

# output to /tmp/q for compat
import q
# output to stdout
import q.stdout as q

[petaflot]

Needs to be more general that a flag for stdout. Granted the lightning talk showed potential issues with stdout and stderr, but sometimes they would be the best place. And sometimes, a user-specified file would be best, when running multiple processes with q concurrently, for example, having their output interleaved in one file would not always be appropriate (if that is even possible, not sure what file open modes q uses, hopefully shared and append, but still the ability for separate processes to use separate output files would be better, sometmes)

yes!!!!

I imagine something like

import q as log_here
q.q(1+0) # prints output to /tmp/log_here

it would also work with decorators

another form would be

from q import q
from q import q as Q

q(True) # prints output to /tmp/q
Q(True) # prints output to /tmp/Q