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!pprint --- Data pretty printer — PrettyPrinter Objects

Construct a PrettyPrinter instance. Arguments have the same meaning as for ~pprint.pp. Note that they are in a different order, and that sort_dicts defaults to True. >>> import pprint >>> stuff = ['spam', 'eggs', 'lumberjack', 'knights', 'ni'] >>> stuff.insert(0, stuff[:]) >>> pp = pprint.PrettyPrin

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). Construct a PrettyPrinter instance. Arguments have the same meaning as for ~pprint.pp. Note that they are in a different order, and that sort_dicts defaults to True. >>> import pprint >>> stuff = ['spam', 'eggs', 'lumberjack', 'knights', 'ni'] >>> stuff.insert(0, stuff[:]) >>> pp = pprint.PrettyPrinter(indent=4) >>> pp.pprint(stuff) [ ['spam', 'eggs', 'lumberjack', 'knights', 'ni'], 'spam', 'eggs', 'lumberjack', 'knights', 'ni'] >>> pp = pprint.PrettyPrinter(width=41, compact=True) >>> pp.pprint(stuff) [['spam', 'eggs', 'lumberjack', 'knights', 'ni'], 'spam', 'eggs', 'lumberjack', 'knights', 'ni'] >>> pp = pprint.PrettyPrinter(width=41, expand=True, indent=3) >>> pp.pprint(stuff) [ [ 'spam', 'eggs', 'lumberjack', 'knights', 'ni', ], 'spam', 'eggs', 'lumberjack', 'knights', 'ni', ] >>> tup = ('spam', ('eggs', ('lumberjack', ('knights', ('ni', ('dead', ... ('parrot', ('fresh fruit',))))) Attribution: Adapted from Python Documentation under PSF-2.0. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, removed long code blocks, and shortened it for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.
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