How to override the builtin method "print()"

I need to customize the print(), so that it does something else besides printing what I want. Is there a way to override it?

one option is to use contextlib.redirect_stdout:

from contextlib import redirect_stdout

with open('file.txt', 'a') as file, redirect_stdout(file):
    print('hello')

if you need both printing and saving to a file, this may work:

from contextlib import redirect_stdout
from sys import stdout
from io import StringIO

class MyOutput(StringIO):
    def __init__(self, file):
        super().__init__()
        self.file = file

    def write(self, msg):
        stdout.write(msg)
        self.file.write(msg)

with open('file.txt', 'a') as file, redirect_stdout(MyOutput(file=file)):
    print('hello')