[IPython-dev] Extensible pretty-printing

[Fernando Perez]

Hey Robert,

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:
> In the ticket discussion around my patch to restore the result_display hook,
> Brian suggested that the real issue is what the extensibility API for this
> functionality should be. I would like to propose the pretty extension as that
> API. I propose that it should be integrated into the core of IPython as the
> pretty-printer instead of pprint. pretty allows one to specify pretty-print
> functions for individual types and have them used in nested contexts.
>

Can you remind me which ticket that was?  For all of github's great
things, their ticket search is broken beyond comprehension and is for
all intents and purposes useless.

Cheers,

f