# pprint --- Data pretty printer — Example

> To demonstrate several uses of the ~pprint.pp function and its parameters, let's fetch information about a project from PyPI < >>> import json >>> import pprint >>> from urllib.request import urlopen >>> with urlopen(' as resp: ...

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To demonstrate several uses of the ~pprint.pp function and its parameters, let's fetch information about a project from PyPI &lt;

&gt;&gt;&gt; import json &gt;&gt;&gt; import pprint &gt;&gt;&gt; from urllib.request import urlopen &gt;&gt;&gt; with urlopen(' as resp: ... project_info = json.load(resp)['info']

In its basic form, ~pprint.pp shows the whole object

&gt;&gt;&gt; pprint.pp(project_info) {'author': 'The Python Packaging Authority', 'author_email': 'pypa-dev@googlegroups.com', 'bugtrack_url': None, 'classifiers': ['Development Status :: 3 - Alpha', 'Intended Audience :: Developers', 'License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License', 'Programming Language :: Python :: 2', 'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6', 'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7', 'Programming Language :: Python :: 3', 'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.2', 'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.3', 'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4', 'Topic :: Software Development :: Build Tools'], 'description': 'A sample Python project\n' '=======================\n' '\n' 'This is the description file for the project.\n' '\n' 'The file should use UTF-8 encoding and be written using ' 'ReStructured Text. It\n' 'will be used to generate the project webpage on PyPI, and ' 'should be written for\n' 'that purpose.\n' '\n' 'Typical contents for this file would include an overview of ' 'the project, basic\n' 'usage examples, etc. Generally, including the project ' 'changelog in here is not\n' 'a good idea, although a simple "What\'s New" section for the ' 'most recent version\n' 'may be appropriate.', 'description_content_type': None, 'docs_url': None, 'download_url': 'UNKNOWN', 'downloads': {'last_day': -1, 'last_month': -1, 'last_week': -1}, 'home_page': ' 'keywords': 'sample setuptools development', 'license': 'MIT', 'maintainer': None, 'maintainer_email': None, 'name': 'sampleproject', 'package_url': ' 'platform': 'UNKNOWN', 'project_url': ' 'project_urls': {'Download': 'UNKNOWN', 'Homepage': ' 'release_url': ' 'requires_dist': None, 'requires_python': None, 'summary': 'A sample Python project', 'version': '1.2.0'}

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