---
title: st.echo
slug: /develop/api-reference/text/st.echo
description: st.echo displays some code on the app, then execute it. Useful for tutorials.
---

<Autofunction function="streamlit.echo" />

### Display code

Sometimes you want your Streamlit app to contain _both_ your usual
Streamlit graphic elements _and_ the code that generated those elements.
That's where `st.echo()` comes in.

Ok so let's say you have the following file, and you want to make its
app a little bit more self-explanatory by making that middle section
visible in the Streamlit app:

```python
import streamlit as st

def get_user_name():
    return 'John'

# ------------------------------------------------
# Want people to see this part of the code...

def get_punctuation():
    return '!!!'

greeting = "Hi there, "
user_name = get_user_name()
punctuation = get_punctuation()

st.write(greeting, user_name, punctuation)

# ...up to here
# ------------------------------------------------

foo = 'bar'
st.write('Done!')
```

The file above creates a Streamlit app containing the words "Hi there,
`John`", and then "Done!".

Now let's use `st.echo()` to make that middle section of the code visible
in the app:

```python
import streamlit as st

def get_user_name():
    return 'John'

with st.echo():
    # Everything inside this block will be both printed to the screen
    # and executed.

    def get_punctuation():
        return '!!!'

    greeting = "Hi there, "
    value = get_user_name()
    punctuation = get_punctuation()

    st.write(greeting, value, punctuation)

# And now we're back to _not_ printing to the screen
foo = 'bar'
st.write('Done!')
```

It's _that_ simple!

<Note>

You can have multiple `st.echo()` blocks in the same file.
Use it as often as you wish!

</Note>