Can json.dumps create multiple lines
John Gordon
gordon at panix.com
Thu Dec 1 11:57:17 EST 2016
In <87lgvz4no8.fsf at Equus.decebal.nl> Cecil Westerhof <Cecil at decebal.nl> writes:
> I started to use json.dumps to put things in a SQLite database. But I
> think it would be handy when it would be easy to change the values
> manually.
> When I have a value dummy which contains:
> ['An array', 'with several strings', 'as a demo']
> Then json.dumps(dummy) would generate:
> '["An array", "with several strings", "as a demo"]'
> I would prefer when it would generate:
> '[
> "An array",
> "with several strings",
> "as a demo"
> ]'
json.dumps() has an 'indent' keyword argument, but I believe it only
enables indenting of each whole element, not individual members of a list.
Perhaps something in the pprint module?
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