[Python-Dev] pprint and list/tuple/dict subclasses

[Guido van Rossum]

> Currently pprint refuses to prettyprint subclasses of list,
> tuple and dict. Does it make sense to change that for 2.4?
> 
> Of course once __repr__() is overwritten by a subclass,
> pprint has to use that instead of its own formatting.

Sounds like a  good plan.  Do you have a suggested patch?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)