[Python-Dev] pprint and list/tuple/dict subclasses (original) (raw)

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake at acm.org
Tue Dec 2 13:45:41 EST 2003

Walter Dörwald writes:

Currently pprint refuses to prettyprint subclasses of list, tuple and dict. Does it make sense to change that for 2.4?

Of course once repr() is overwritten by a subclass, pprint has to use that instead of its own formatting.

There's a patch for this that's on my list of things to look at I think. The discussion associated with the patch had the right idea, but I've not had time to review the patch (which I think is embarrassingly short); if you'd like to do so, be my guest!

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr. PythonLabs at Zope Corporation

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