Hi, what do you think about adding a tool to print a specified object, similar to pydoc shows its help?
I regularly find myself checking the contents of variables to get a quick grasp on what the value looks like during development, and then type something like this: python -c 'import os; print(os.pathsep)' # or even python >>> import os >>> os.pathsep other examples may be MODULE.__version__, sys.path, or sys.platform, but really this happens a lot for a lot of different things. It would be nice to just type, e.g. any of: pyval os.pathsep python -m pprint os.pathsep python -p os.pathsep pydoc --value os.pathsep There is already a tool like this on PyPI [1] (sadly py2 only atm), but if you agree that this is a common pattern, I believe it would be a lot more useful to have it in the stdlib. [1] https://pypi.org/project/pyeval/ Additional considerations: It might be useful to add an option to pass a format specification, which would then do the equivalent of: print(format(value, spec)) Note that [1] is even more powerful, because it can directly evaluate expressions, e.g.: pyeval 'math.sin(math.pi/5)' This can be really useful at times, but maybe the base version would be enough for a first step. What do you think? Best, Thomas
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