I have a problem with pprint in python

Question

I have looked into the pprint function, which i tried below:

from pprint import pprint
a = [[1,2],[3,4]]
pprint(a)

But it didn't give me what i want, which is:

1 2
3 4

Is there a simple way to solve this ?

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 22 '11 at 02:08

2

That's... not what pprint does.

for i in a:
  print ' '.join(i)

answered Sep 22 '11 at 02:08

2

Then either you've lied in your question, or you have one very messed up version of `pprint`. – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Sep 22 '11 at 02:11
TypeError: sequence item 0: expected string, int found. this is what i get when i try your solution – Sep 22 '11 at 02:48

score -1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 22 '11 at 02:13

-1

You can either do what Ignacio said or change the width of pprint:

>>> pprint.pprint([[1,2],[3,4]], width=10)
[[1, 2],
 [3, 4]]

But you would have to calculate the space that your list takes...

answered Sep 22 '11 at 02:13

JBernardo

I think this is the solution i ask for. Just curious what does the width=10 do? – Sep 22 '11 at 02:16
the maximum amount of space for each line. You would have to change this number for your needs – JBernardo Sep 22 '11 at 02:18
how do you come up with number 10 ? – Sep 22 '11 at 02:21

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