Why does the "dis" module print?

[Michael Hudson]

tweedgeezer at hotmail.com (Jeremy Fincher) writes:

> It seems that it would be a lot easier to pull information out of
> the output of the dis.dis function if, instead of printing its
> results, it returned a list of the disassembled bytecodes.  Printing
> bytecodes from a returned list is trivial; making a list from the
> printed bytecodes is much less so.  Why does dis print instead of
> returning a list of bytecodes?

Because noone ever expected dis.dis to be used programmatically?  What
do you want to do with it?

Cheers,
M.

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