@Ron: Now that it has a reasonably clear signature, I could see my way clear to making the Instruction._disassemble() method public, which makes it easy for people to compose their own disassembly output.
For all the other display methods, I prefer Ryan Kelly's suggestion of supporting a "file" argument which is then passed through to the underlying "print()" calls.
This is inconsistent with what I originally did for the code_info() APIs (where I made a separate "give me the string" function), but it's the lowest impact change that avoids the need to capture stdout.