'pretty print' for built in types

[Robert Dailey]

Hi,

Is there a built in way to 'pretty print' a dict, list, and tuple
(Amongst other types)? Dicts probably print the ugliest of them all,
and it would be nice to see a way to print them in a readable way. I
can come up with my own function to do this, but I don't want to do
this if I don't have to.

 

[eric]

Hi,

Is there a built in way to 'pretty print' a dict, list, and tuple
(Amongst other types)? Dicts probably print the ugliest of them all,
and it would be nice to see a way to print them in a readable way. I
can come up with my own function to do this, but I don't want to do
this if I don't have to.

you can have a look at [http://code.google.com/p/prynt/ prynt], it
provides some simple functions, to pretty print into RestructuredText,
and then, when the process is finished (it's an option) show the
'console' converted into html.
dict are transformed into definition:
key: value
key: value


it helps ?

 

[aspersieman]

Is there a built in way to 'pretty print' a dict, list, and tuple
(Amongst other types)? Dicts probably print the ugliest of them all,
and it would be nice to see a way to print them in a readable way. I
can come up with my own function to do this, but I don't want to do
this if I don't have to.

For lists use 'join'.

lista = ['a', 'b', 'c', 4]
','.join(lista)
a,b,c,4

For more info google 'python join' or see [1]

Regards

Nicol

[1] http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#string-methods

 

[Chris Rebert]

Hi,

Is there a built in way to 'pretty print' a dict, list, and tuple
(Amongst other types)? Dicts probably print the ugliest of them all,
and it would be nice to see a way to print them in a readable way. I
can come up with my own function to do this, but I don't want to do
this if I don't have to.

There's the `pprint` module in the std lib:
http://docs.python.org/library/pprint.html

Cheers,
Chris
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