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[3.12] GH-115986 Docs: promote pprint.pp usage as a default (GH-116614) (#117196)
Co-authored-by: Kerim Kabirov <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <[email protected]>
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Doc/library/pprint.rst

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*args* and *kwargs* will be passed to :func:`~pprint.pprint` as formatting
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parameters.
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>>> import pprint
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>>> stuff = ['spam', 'eggs', 'lumberjack', 'knights', 'ni']
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>>> stuff.insert(0, stuff)
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>>> pprint.pp(stuff)
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[<Recursion on list with id=...>,
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'spam',
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'eggs',
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'lumberjack',
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'knights',
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'ni']
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.. versionadded:: 3.8
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:class:`PrettyPrinter` constructor and their meanings are as
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described in its documentation below.
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>>> import pprint
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>>> stuff = ['spam', 'eggs', 'lumberjack', 'knights', 'ni']
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>>> stuff.insert(0, stuff)
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>>> pprint.pprint(stuff)
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[<Recursion on list with id=...>,
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'spam',
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'eggs',
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'lumberjack',
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'knights',
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'ni']
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Note that *sort_dicts* is ``True`` by default and you might want to use
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:func:`~pprint.pp` instead where it is ``False`` by default.
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.. function:: pformat(object, indent=1, width=80, depth=None, *, \
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compact=False, sort_dicts=True, underscore_numbers=False)
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Example
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To demonstrate several uses of the :func:`~pprint.pprint` function and its parameters,
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To demonstrate several uses of the :func:`~pprint.pp` function and its parameters,
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let's fetch information about a project from `PyPI <https://pypi.org>`_::
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>>> with urlopen('https://pypi.org/pypi/sampleproject/json') as resp:
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... project_info = json.load(resp)['info']
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In its basic form, :func:`~pprint.pprint` shows the whole object::
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In its basic form, :func:`~pprint.pp` shows the whole object::
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>>> pprint.pprint(project_info)
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>>> pprint.pp(project_info)
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{'author': 'The Python Packaging Authority',
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'author_email': '[email protected]',
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'bugtrack_url': None,
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The result can be limited to a certain *depth* (ellipsis is used for deeper
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>>> pprint.pprint(project_info, depth=1)
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>>> pprint.pp(project_info, depth=1)
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{'author': 'The Python Packaging Authority',
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'author_email': '[email protected]',
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'bugtrack_url': None,
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Additionally, maximum character *width* can be suggested. If a long object
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>>> pprint.pprint(project_info, depth=1, width=60)
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>>> pprint.pp(project_info, depth=1, width=60)
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{'author': 'The Python Packaging Authority',
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'author_email': '[email protected]',
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'bugtrack_url': None,

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