On 2009-01-29 08:20, Aahz wrote:
The reason I'm chiming in is that I would welcome a PEP that created a
__pprint__ method as an alternative to special-casing. I think that it
would be generically useful for user-created objects, plus once you've
added this feature other people can easily do some of the grunt work of
extending this through the Python core. (Actually, unless someone
objects, I don't think a PEP is required, but it would be good for the
usual reasons that PEPs are written, to provide a central place
documenting the addition.)
I think it's worth looking at Armin Ronacher's pretty.py for a starting point.
http://dev.pocoo.org/hg/sandbox/file/tip/pretty
I've been using it as my default displayhook under IPython for a few weeks now.
It uses a combination of a function registry and a __pretty__ special method to
find the right pretty printer.
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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