any plans to make pprint() a builtin?
John Salerno
johnjsal at NOSPAMgmail.com
Mon May 15 10:48:03 EDT 2006
Ant wrote:
> Considering that the current:
>
> import pprint
> pprint.pprint(x)
>
> is hardly lengthy, I can't see how either of the alternatives proposed
> are any better.
>
>> python.pprint.pprint(x)
>
> 6 characters shorter, but considerably more keystrokes if you are using
> pprint more than once. Is it worth adding the 'python' builtin to save
> an import statement?
>
>> import py
>> py.std.pprint.pprint(x)
>
> Longer, messy, and what's the actual point? Wouldn't:
>
> import pprint as pp
> pp.pprint(x)
>
> be better, standard *and* shorter?
>
I guess the idea is that you can use the import py statement to access
many other modules as well, without importing them all separately.
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