[Python-ideas] pprint in displayhook

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 01:07:18PM +0300, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
> 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)?

Well, let's try it and see...


py> L = list(range(50))
py> print(L)
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 
20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 
38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49]
py> pprint.pprint(L)
[0,
 1,
 2,
 3,
 4,
 5,
 6,
 7,
 8,
 9,
 10,
 11,
 12,
 13,
 14,
 15,
 16,
 17,
 18,
 19,
 20,
 21,
 22,
 23,
 24,
 25,
 26,
 27,
 28,
 29,
 30,
 31,
 32,
 33,
 34,
 35,
 36,
 37,
 38,
 39,
 40,
 41,
 42,
 43,
 44,
 45,
 46,
 47,
 48,
 49]


That would be an Absolutely Not.

However, if somebody wanted to give pprint some attention to make it 
actually pretty print, that would be very welcome.


-- 
Steven