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.
Questions tagged [pprint]
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Suppress unicode prefix on strings when using pprint
Is there any clean way to supress the unicode character prefix when printing an object using the pprint module?
>>> import pprint
>>> pprint.pprint({u'foo': u'bar', u'baz': [u'apple', u'orange', u'pear', u'guava', u'banana'], u'hello':…
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How to override println behavior for reference types
I have a cyclic graph I created using dosync and ref-set. When I pass this to println I get a java.lang.StackOverflowError as I would expect, because it's effectively trying to print an infinitely-nested structure.
I found that if I do (str…
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How to prettyprint f-Strings?
Attempting to pprint a dictionary from an f-String:
import pprint as pp
my_dict = {
"key_a": ["here", "are", "the", "things"]
, "key_b": ["that", "i", "want"]
, "key_b": ["to", "share", "with", "the",…
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No matching distribution found for pprint
I am trying to install the requirements.txt file for skiptracer and it keeps saying
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pprint (from -r requirements.txt (line 7)) (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found…
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How to line up columns when printing from 2d array in Python?
I want to display a simple 2D array in a tabular format with headings at the top, so that the values line up under the headings. Is there a way to do this? I have looked at pprint and printing using numpy but cannot get it to work. Here is what I…
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Python - pprint large dict nicely?
I'm trying to pretty print dictionary which could get quite big and I want to make it as readable as possible. Though it still does not look like how I would manually write it (with new lines and indentation when needed).
I'm trying it to have…
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How can I pretty print a nltk tree object?
I want to view if the result below is what I need in a visual way:
import nltk
sentence = [("the", "DT"), ("little", "JJ"), ("yellow", "JJ"), ("dog", "NN"), ("barked","VBD"), ("at", "IN"), ("the", "DT"), ("cat", "NN")]
pattern = """NP:…
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How to pprint a tree data structure that is implemented using classes?
I know that pprint can pretty-print a nested list or dictionary, which are both types of tree structures, but I want to pprint a class-based tree with an arbitrary number of children, such that nodes are indented to the right depending on their…
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Namedtuple formatted/pretty print in Python
Having trouble printing a namedtuple:
Info = namedtuple('Info', ['type', 'value', 'x', 'y'])
so that the values are aligned and with space(padding) between them, for example like so:
Info( type='AAA', value=80000, x=16.4, y=164.2 )
Info(…
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How to ask sympy to don't translate bm to boldsymbol?
I'm in the situation where the enduser can define a variable name by himself.
For instance: a variable called "tbm_al" is correct.
In order to pprint variable as latex, I'm using sympy.latex and expecting to have something like "tbm" with "al" as…
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Why does my code work from interactive shell, but not when run from a file?
I am trying to use the pprint module to check out some vars in Python, which I can happily do using the interactive shell and the code below:
import pprint
pp = pprint.PrettyPrinter()
stuff = ['cakes','bread','mead']
pp.pprint(stuff)
However, when…
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How to parse json in bash or pass curl output to python script
I'm looking to find some way to have pretty print of curl's output in json.
I wrote short python script for this purpose, but it won't work with pipe
Also I don't want to use subprocesses and run curl from them:
So python:
#!/usr/bin/python
import…
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I don't understand the width field in pprint in python
I don't understand this concept clearly.
Could somebody give me some examples to demonstrate the concept for width in pprint in python?
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pprint with hex numbers
I work with a number of json-like dicts. pprint is handy for structuring them. Is there a way to cause all ints in a pprint output to be printed in hex rather than decimal?
For example, rather than:
{66: 'far',
99: 'Bottles of the beer on the…
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Why is Python 3's PrettyPrinter behaving differently from Python 2's, and how do I get the same behavior?
When I try running this code:
from pprint import PrettyPrinter
class MyPrettyPrinter(PrettyPrinter):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
PrettyPrinter.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
def format(self, object, context, maxlevels,…
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