Earlier versions of IDA are not rendering their output using sys.displayhook which products incorrectly formatted output about ida-minsc

[arizvisa]

After fucking with this for a bit, I tried an angle where I overwrite sys.stdout and sys.stderr with a pretty lazy implementation that calls into sys.displayhook. This resulted in a recurision issue, so I then re-factored the ui.DisplayHook() implementation to use classmethods instead of being a copy of IDA 6.95's implementation. After the refactor, I then hooked sys.stdout and sys.stderr again so that it directly uses it for formatting, and...it works, but not really.

So print and other functions are processing things before the output hooks receive the object which means that there's no way to get the non-string object in order to determine how to reformat it. This makes complete sense, so I'm not sure why I started hacking away at it instead of stopping to think about it.

Essentially there's a PR sitting in the GH-64 branch, but I'm not sure how I can fix this exactly. I'd need to know exactly what the object that's evaluated returns in order to determine how to render it properly. Ideally this should be being passed to sys.displayhook, but since IDAPython is never ideal..I can't think of any way to get this object. I have some more writing I need to do and thus will sit on thinking about this for a bit, but this might get tagged as a "wontfix".

[arizvisa]

Tagging this as "wontfix".

[arizvisa]

Removed the "bug" label.

[arizvisa]

Closing this issue for now since it's tagged as "wontfix" I'm not really sure how to proceed atm.