[Python-Dev] pprint(iterator) (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Fri Jan 30 05:27:14 CET 2009

Ron Adam wrote:

Steven D'Aprano wrote: Michael Foord wrote:

Don't we have a pretty-print API - and isn't it spelled str ? Not really. If it were as simple as calling str(obj), there would be no need for the pprint module. I agree. And when I want to use pprint, there are usually additional output formatting requirements I need that isn't a "one size fits all" type of problem.

Like others, I am wary of over-expanding the list of special methods. Perhap format strings could have a fourth conversion specifier, !p (pretty) in addition to !s, !r, and !a.

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