[issue5131] pprint doesn't know how to print a defaultdict

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Closing this as a duplicate of issue 7434 (which is about redesigning pprint to make it easier to add support for new types) -- nosy: +ncoghlan resolution: accepted - duplicate stage: patch review - committed/rejected status: open - closed superseder: -

[issue5131] pprint doesn't know how to print a defaultdict

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[issue5131] pprint doesn't know how to print a defaultdict

Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com added the comment: Terry J. Reedy (terry.reedy) wrote: IMHO pprint should be able to make a decent job of all the built in types Agreed, already true as far as I know, and irrelevant. This issue is not about built-in types in the builtins module, as

[issue5131] pprint doesn't know how to print a defaultdict

Nick Craig-Wood n...@craig-wood.com added the comment: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger) wrote: Ben, I don't think there is any value is opening more issues like pprint-doesn't-handle-object-x (named tuples, defautdicts, deques, generators, etc). As it is currently designed, pprint doesn't

[issue5131] pprint doesn't know how to print a defaultdict

Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: IMHO pprint should be able to make a decent job of all the built in types Agreed, already true as far as I know, and irrelevant. This issue is not about built-in types in the builtins module, as documented Lib Ref chapter 5 *Built-in Types*.

[issue5131] pprint doesn't know how to print a defaultdict

Ben Bass benpaulb...@googlemail.com added the comment: Same applies to collections.deque, which seems closely related (being another collections class). Can this get addressed here or should I open another issue? (just been pprinting defaultdict(deque) objects, which clearly fails :)

[issue5131] pprint doesn't know how to print a defaultdict

Raymond Hettinger rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: Ben, I don't think there is any value is opening more issues like pprint-doesn't-handle-object-x (named tuples, defautdicts, deques, generators, etc). As it is currently designed, pprint doesn't offer usable hooks and it is

[issue5131] pprint doesn't know how to print a defaultdict

Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: Jack, can you update your patch to reflect Terry’s review? Amaury, have you opened a feature request about your registration idea? -- nosy: +eric.araujo ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue5131] pprint doesn't know how to print a defaultdict

Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: BTW, Tarek’s name is valid UTF-8 in py3k. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5131 ___

[issue5131] pprint doesn't know how to print a defaultdict

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc amaur...@gmail.com added the comment: Patch looks good to me. (Some day the pprint module should grow some way to register repr for user types, so we can stop adding special cases; but defaultdict() is a builtin) -- nosy: +amaury.forgeotdarc resolution: - accepted

[issue5131] pprint doesn't know how to print a defaultdict

Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: I removed 'a set or' from the title since sets are no longer an issue. Since .fromkeys is a class method, it should be called on a class rather than an instance. I was initially fooled by the irrelevant addition of '(int)'. 100 is

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