[Python-ideas] pprint in displayhook

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Sep 27 13:57:13 CEST 2013


Le Fri, 27 Sep 2013 14:15:13 +0300,
Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com> a
écrit :
> 27.09.13 13:15, Antoine Pitrou написав(ла):
> > Le Fri, 27 Sep 2013 13:07:18 +0300,
> > Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com> a
> > écrit :
> >> What are you think about using pprint.pprint() to output the result
> >> of evaluating an expression entered in an interactive Python
> >> session (and in IDLE)?
> >
> > I'm not sure I like this idea.  AFAICT pprint() isn't bullet-proof,
> > and it would be a pain to debug if it failed to display some objects
> > properly.
> 
> We can set displayhook in site.py and for debug restore it from 
> sys.__displayhook__. This is not more painful than use readline and 
> enable completion by default.

:-) I don't know, I'll let other people experiment with it.

Regards

Antoine.




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