With the way you have imported, you trying to use the module pprint instead of the function pprint.pprint.
You need to use pprint.pprint or you need to import as: from pprint import pprint if you want to use the shorter form. On Tuesday, July 22, 2014 5:42:02 PM UTC-4, fl wrote: > Hi, > > > > I read web tutorial at: > > > > http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201308/names_and_values_making_a_game_board.html > > > > I enter the example lines of that website: > > > > > > import pprint > > board = [ [0]*8 ] * 8 > > pprint(board) > > > > > > It echos error with Python 2.7: > > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "C:\Python27\Lib\SITE-P~1\PYTHON~2\pywin\framework\scriptutils.py", > > line 323, in RunScript > > debugger.run(codeObject, __main__.__dict__, start_stepping=0) > > File "C:\Python27\Lib\SITE-P~1\PYTHON~2\pywin\debugger\__init__.py", > > line 60, in run > > _GetCurrentDebugger().run(cmd, globals,locals, start_stepping) > > File "C:\Python27\Lib\SITE-P~1\PYTHON~2\pywin\debugger\debugger.py", > > line 655, in run > > exec cmd in globals, locals > > File "C:\cygwin64\home\Jeff\Python_lesson\ppn.py", line 1, in <module> > > import pprint > > TypeError: 'module' object is not callable > > > > It has similar error with Python 3.4.1. > > > > > > Why does pprint not work? > > > > > > Thanks, -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list