[IPython-dev] Extensible pretty-printing
Walter Dörwald
walter at livinglogic.de
Thu Oct 28 05:47:29 EDT 2010
On 28.10.10 11:45, Walter Dörwald wrote:
> On 27.10.10 17:37, Robert Kern 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.
>>
>> Incidentally, this would resolve this issue by allowing the user to specify a
>> pretty-printer for floats:
>>
>> http://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/issue/190
>
> Are there plans to support something like pretty:
>
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pretty
>
> which seems to be well thought out and extensible?
BTW, here's a directy link to the file with documentation:
http://dev.pocoo.org/hg/sandbox/file/tip/pretty/pretty.py
Servus,
Walter
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