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Pprint is a Python module used for “pretty-printing” arbitrary data structures.

The pprint module provides a capability to “pretty-print” arbitrary Python data structures in a form which can be used as input to the interpreter.

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How do I get python's pprint to return a string instead of printing?

In other words, what's the sprintf equivalent to pprint?
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Use logging print the output of pprint

I want to use pprint's output to show a complex data structure, but I would like to output it using the logging module rather than stdout. ds = [{'hello': 'there'}] logging.debug( pprint.pprint(ds) ) # outputs as STDOUT
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Any way to properly pretty-print OrderedDict?

I like the pprint module in Python. I use it a lot for testing and debugging. I frequently use the width option to make sure the output fits nicely within my terminal window. It has worked fine until they added the new ordered dictionary type in…
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pprint dictionary on multiple lines

I'm trying to get a pretty print of a dictionary, but I'm having no luck: >>> import pprint >>> a = {'first': 123, 'second': 456, 'third': {1:1, 2:2}} >>> pprint.pprint(a) {'first': 123, 'second': 456, 'third': {1: 1, 2: 2}} I wanted the output to…
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Disabling sorting mechanism in pprint output

I have big dictionary which I`m printing for viewing with prettyprint, but how I can keep formatting but kill sorting mechanism in pprint?
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Pretty print namedtuple

I tried pprint from pprint, but its output is just one line, there is no multiline output and no indentation.
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pprint(): how to use double quotes to display strings?

If I print a dictionary using pprint, it always wraps strings around single quotes ('): >>> from pprint import pprint >>> pprint({'AAA': 1, 'BBB': 2, 'CCC': 3}) {'AAA': 1, 'BBB': 2, 'CCC': 3} Is there any way to tell pprint to use double quotes (")…
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Parsing json and searching through it

I have this code import json from pprint import pprint json_data=open('bookmarks.json') jdata = json.load(json_data) pprint (jdata) json_data.close() How can I search through it for u'uri': u'http:?
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Python PrettyPrint output to variable

How to store a Python PrettyPrint output to some variable. Any other way than eyeD3? like this - string_output = pp.pprint(dict)
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How to use pprint to print an object using the built-in __str__(self) method?

I have a Python script which processes a .txt file which contains report usage information. I'd like to find a way to cleanly print the attributes of an object using pprint's pprint(vars(object)) function. The script reads the file and creates…
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Can't get pprint to work in clojure

Noob question, using Win7 64-bit, Clojure 1.2.0, Java 1.6.0_22 When I start clojure from command line, pprint function is easily available. user=> pprint # user=> (pprint "hi") "hi" nil user=> But when I…
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Can I make pprint in python3 not split strings, like in python2?

Is there a way to tell pprint in Python 3 not to split strings on whitespace? Python 2's pprint did not do this. Can this behavior be disabled? I looked through the source for pprint and it doesn't look like there's an option I saw for this. Can I…
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How can I format a map over several lines with pprint?

pprint's docs are kind of a brick wall. If you pprint a map, it comes out on one line like so: {:a "b", :b "c", :d "e"}. Instead, I'd like to be pprinted like this, optionally with commas: {:a "b" :b "c" :d "e"} How would one do that with pprint?
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Can I avoid a sorted dictionary output after I've used pprint.pprint, in Python?

The code is: from pprint import pprint d = {"b" : "Maria", "c" : "Helen", "a" : "George"} pprint(d, width = 1) The output is: {'a': 'George', 'b': 'Maria', 'c': 'Helen'} But, the desired output is: {'b': 'Maria', 'c': 'Helen', 'a':…
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Pretty print JSON python

if anybody with some knowledge about pretty printing JSON could help me with this I would be extremely grateful! I'm looking to convert a complex python string into JSON format, using the function below to move the JSON string to a file: with…
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