Joe Strout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What's the standard solution for this? Should I iterate over the
> sorted keys and print those out instead? Is there some built-in
> method somewhere that will print a dictionary in a reliable order?
> Does doctest have some special way to tell it to consider the result
> as a dictionary rather than a string? Or something else?
pprint will sort a dictionary's keys as well as laying it out with line
breaks where appropriate.
>>> from pprint import pprint
>>> pprint(t.match( "The rain in Spain falls mainly on the train." ))
{'location': 'Spain', 'object': 'rain', 'subloc': 'train'}
which leaves the question of what you do for this one:
>>> pprint({1j: 'hello', 0: 'world'})
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#8>", line 1, in <module>
pprint({1j: 'hello', 0: 'world'})
File "C:\Python25\lib\pprint.py", line 55, in pprint
printer.pprint(object)
File "C:\Python25\lib\pprint.py", line 106, in pprint
self._format(object, self._stream, 0, 0, {}, 0)
File "C:\Python25\lib\pprint.py", line 129, in _format
rep = self._repr(object, context, level - 1)
File "C:\Python25\lib\pprint.py", line 195, in _repr
self._depth, level)
File "C:\Python25\lib\pprint.py", line 207, in format
return _safe_repr(object, context, maxlevels, level)
File "C:\Python25\lib\pprint.py", line 249, in _safe_repr
for k, v in sorted(object.items()):
TypeError: no ordering relation is defined for complex numbers
>>>
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