# Pet Peeve Rant, whatever :P

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**Category:** General Discussion\
**Tags:** vision, perspective\
**Created:** [January 7, 2026, 7:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/pet-peeve-rant-whatever-p/113136 "2026-01-07T19:28:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 7:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/pet-peeve-rant-whatever-p/113136/3 "2026-01-07T19:49:52Z")

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> [@Way to print for both perspective and vision projects?](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/way-to-print-for-both-perspective-and-vision-projects/34793):
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> I have a Ignition project that has both a vision and perspective aspect to them. They share some business logic functions. I would like it if I could craft a print function that would handle printing if it was in vision or perspective, given one I have to use print and the other I have to use system.perspective.print. Has anyone figured out a way to do this? Basically I want something like def print(message, ???): if ???: print message else: system.perspective.print(…

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