Thanks for your response, I want to print/repr an OrderedDict() without relying 
on the fact that "dict are ordered" ie. I want a solution < python 3.7.
Currently, if I do repr( OrderedDict([(1,2),(3,4)]) ), I get the string 
"OrderedDict([(1,2),(3,4)])", I'd like a function that would return the string 
"{1: 2, 3: 4}" in the correct order.
If I do repr(dict( OrderedDict([(1,2),(3,4)]) )) I get "{1: 2, 3: 4}" because 
dict are ordered since python 3.7.
And for pprint, currently pformat( OrderedDict([(1,2),(3,4)]) ) gives the 
string 'OrderedDict([(1, 2), (3, 4)])' (and adds \n for bigger dict).
I could do pprint(dict( OrderedDict([(1,2),(3,4)]) )) but again that relies on 
python 3.7 behavior.
I'm wondering if there exists an easy way to code this "order preserving repr 
and pprint/pformat".

Le ven. 27 juil. 2018 à 07:58, Steven D'Aprano 
<st...@pearwood.info<mailto:st...@pearwood.info>> a écrit :
On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 05:30:35AM +0000, Robert Vanden Eynde wrote:

> Currently, what's the best way to implement a function
> f(OrderedDict([(1,2),(3,4)])) == '{1: 2, 3: 4}', works for all
> possible types, and also availaible for pprint with nice indent?

I don't understand the question, and I especially don't understand the
"all possible types" part. Do you actually mean *all* possible types,
like int, float, str, MyClassThatDoesSomethingWeird?

But guessing (possibly incorrectly) what you want:

py> from collections import OrderedDict
py> od = OrderedDict([(1,2),(3,4)])
py> od == {1:2, 3: 4}
True

If efficiency is no concern, then the simplest way to get something that
has a dict repr from an OrderedDict is to use a dict:

py> dict(od)
{1: 2, 3: 4}

This also works as OrderedDict is a subclass of dict, and should avoid
the cost of building an entire dict:

py> dict.__repr__(od)
'{1: 2, 3: 4}'


> If I
> could set a parameter in ipython or python repl that would print that,
> that would already be very useful.

See sys.displayhook.



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Steve
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