[Python-ideas] pprint in displayhook

[Robert Kern]

On 2013-10-01 20:17, Paul Colomiets wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> What should be changed in pprint?
>
> Would be nice if it support custom types.

For what it's worth, I would like to point out that IPython uses an adaptation 
of Armin Ronacher's pretty.py for pretty-printing as the default displayhook. It 
is a nice design that supports custom types after-the-fact.

   https://github.com/ipython/ipython/blob/master/IPython/lib/pretty.py

Armin's original code:

   http://dev.pocoo.org/hg/sandbox/file/tip/pretty/pretty.py

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Robert Kern

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