Redirect print output from VisiData to vd.status

redirect_stdout_vdstatus.py

import contextlib
from io import StringIO

import visidata
from visidata import vd


class VDStatusIO(StringIO):
    def write(self, s):
	'''Forward writes to the VisiData message log'''
        vd.status(s)

data = [{'x': 5, 'y': 10}]

# Launch a VisiData view whose writes to stdout (from e.g. print())
# get funneled to vd.status() instead.
with contextlib.redirect_stdout(VDStatusIO()):
    visidata.pyobj.view(data)