truncate sequences in pretty-print ?
hello, i use pprint quite a bit during development to give me quick insight into what is going on inside my application. however, when there's any sequences involved, the output becomes less useful the longer these sequences are - i often find myself scrolling around (or even searching) in the terminal window, trying to find the bit of output i am interested in. imo, it would be great if pprint had a parameter 'max_len' or so that reduces output of every sequence to a maximum and inserts something like '...' to indicate truncation, e.g. {'my key': ['my list item 01', 'my list item 02', 'my list item 03', 'my list item 04', 'my list item 05', 'my list item 06', 'my list item 07', 'my list item 08', '...', 'my list item 10',]} somewhat comparable to the '...' already printed when a structure is more deeply nested than you want to know right now. what do you think ? cheers, ssc
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Steven Samuel Cole <steven.samuel.cole@gmail.com> wrote:
Agreed, this would be a useful feature. I've reimplemented something like pprint a few times and always had to implement this truncation feature. If you or someone can contribute a patch that would be much appreciated! -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
On 9/18/2011 10:59 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
http://bugs.python.org/issue13004 -- Terry Jan Reedy
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Steven Samuel Cole <steven.samuel.cole@gmail.com> wrote:
Agreed, this would be a useful feature. I've reimplemented something like pprint a few times and always had to implement this truncation feature. If you or someone can contribute a patch that would be much appreciated! -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
On 9/18/2011 10:59 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
http://bugs.python.org/issue13004 -- Terry Jan Reedy
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