Custom function that prints function text

[gyaan_anveyshak]

Currently:

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a = "abcde" print("b[::-1] : ", b[::-1]) print("b[5:0:-1] : ", b[5:0:-1])

Output:

Output:
>>> b[::-1] : edcba
>>> b[5:0:-1] : edcb

Can a custom function be defined that avoids duplicity in typing?
For ex:

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def fuc(a)     print(a, ":", a) # change here   fuc(b[::-1]) fuc(b[5:0:-1])

Output:

Output:
>>> b[::-1] : edcba
>>> b[5:0:-1] : edcb

[jefsummers]

Yes
Here's a dangerous way - you don't want to expose the eval() function to anything a user might enter for security purposes

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def double_print(mystring) :     print(mystring, eval(mystring))   a = "abcde" double_print("a[::-1]")

Output:
a[::-1] edcba

[buran]

Maybe elaborate further what your actual goal is, because what you are doing/asking how to do is let say weird

[perfringo]

I just mention that it will not work this way as b is not defined and you will get NameError anyway.

One can use f-strings debugging feature introduced in Python 3.8 for somewhat similar results ('=' instead of ':'):

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>>> a = "abcde" >>> print(f'{a[::-1]=}') a[::-1]='edcba' >>> print(f'{a[5:0:-1]=}') a[5:0:-1]='edcb'