did you try
{{=BEAUTIFY(yourobject)}}
On Oct 4, 1:04 pm, Gary Herron <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/04/2010 10:50 AM, mart wrote:
>
> > Sorry, bad typing day....
>
> > I need to display some dictionaries, these are generated according to
> > DATA provided by the user. I would like to display them on a page, but
> > need to display them pretty (like with pprint). I am wrapping this
> > part of the app in plugin_wiki: I have 4 types of data that that get
> > inserted in to a DB once generated that I can use for for this (i
> > couldn't decide, so gave myself options):
>
> Do you kow fo the module called pprint (pretty-print). It comes with
> Python, and does a decent job with dictionaries (even nested ones) right
> out of the box:
> from pprint import pprint
> pprint(...)
> If you want further control, you can investigate the module beyond the
> simple shortcut pprint function.
>
>
>
> > 1) a dictionary (containing other dictionaries embedded within)
> > 2) the same dict, but inserted as_string
> > 3) the same dict, but wrapped up like an object
> > 4) an xml representation of the same dict
>
> > I can write any of these 4 very nicely to the terminal output, or a
> > file, but it seems not on a web2py app page... Once displayed, the
> > user will understand the 'semantics. does anybody have a trick for
> > displaying like this on a webApp page?
>
> > here is an example of what I am looking for (not sure how this will
> > look here, but, apologies in advance if it does look garbled):
>
> > {'resources': {'fileSets': {'fileSet': [{'files': {'file':
> > [{'installPath': '${installRoot}',
> > 'source':
> > '../file001.txt'},
>
> > {'installPath': '${installRoot}',
> > 'source':
> > '../file002.txt'}]},
> > 'rules': {'and': {'include':
> > {'attribute': 'os',
>
> > 'match': 'symbian'},
> > 'or':
> > {'include': [{'attribute': 'osver',
>
> > 'match': 's60'},
>
> > {'attribute': 'os',
>
> > 'match': 's60fp3'}]}},
> > 'exclude':
> > {'attribute': 'osver',
>
> > 'macth': 'DontIncludeMe'}}},
> > {'files': {'file':
> > [{'installPath': '${installRoot}',
> > 'source':
> > '../file003.txt'},
>
> > {'installPath': '${installRoot}',
> > 'source':
> > '../file004.txt'}]},
> > 'rules': {'and': {'include':
> > {'attribute': 'os',
>
> > 'match': 'symbian'},
> > 'or':
> > {'include': {'attribute': 'os',
>
> > 'match': 's60fp3'}}}}}]},
> > 'includeFiles': {'_text': '/',
> > 'includeFile': {'path': '../aFolder/
> > file_man.xml'}},
> > 'packages': {'package': [{'deviceModel': 'Nokia6630',
> > 'installRoot': '/mart/private/
> > 20008421/mo',
> > 'name': 'package001',
> > 'os': 'symbian',
> > 'osver': 's60'},
> > {'deviceModel': 'Nokia6630',
> > 'installRoot': '/mart/private/
> > 20008421/mo',
> > 'name': 'package002',
> > 'os': 'symbian',
> > 'osver': 's60
>
> > On Oct 4, 9:29 am, mart<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> Hi,
>
> --
> Gary Herron, PhD.
> Department of Computer Science
> DigiPen Institute of Technology
> (425) 895-4418
