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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/pprint.rst | 29 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/pprint.rst b/Doc/library/pprint.rst index ae9677f..b3778f1 100644 --- a/Doc/library/pprint.rst +++ b/Doc/library/pprint.rst @@ -49,14 +49,14 @@ The :mod:`pprint` module defines one class: the depth of the objects being formatted. The desired output width is constrained using the *width* parameter; the default is 80 characters. If a structure cannot be formatted within the constrained width, a best effort will - be made. :: + be made. >>> import pprint >>> stuff = ['spam', 'eggs', 'lumberjack', 'knights', 'ni'] >>> stuff.insert(0, stuff[:]) >>> pp = pprint.PrettyPrinter(indent=4) >>> pp.pprint(stuff) - [ ['spam', 'eggs', 'lumberjack', 'knights', 'ni'], + [ [ 'spam', 'eggs', 'lumberjack', 'knights', 'ni'], 'spam', 'eggs', 'lumberjack', @@ -89,19 +89,18 @@ The :class:`PrettyPrinter` class supports several derivative functions: newline. If *stream* is omitted, ``sys.stdout`` is used. This may be used in the interactive interpreter instead of a :keyword:`print` statement for inspecting values. *indent*, *width* and *depth* will be passed to the - :class:`PrettyPrinter` constructor as formatting parameters. :: + :class:`PrettyPrinter` constructor as formatting parameters. >>> import pprint >>> stuff = ['spam', 'eggs', 'lumberjack', 'knights', 'ni'] >>> stuff.insert(0, stuff) >>> pprint.pprint(stuff) - [<Recursion on list with id=869440>, - '', - '/usr/local/lib/python1.5', - '/usr/local/lib/python1.5/test', - '/usr/local/lib/python1.5/sunos5', - '/usr/local/lib/python1.5/sharedmodules', - '/usr/local/lib/python1.5/tkinter'] + [<Recursion on list with id=...>, + 'spam', + 'eggs', + 'lumberjack', + 'knights', + 'ni'] .. versionchanged:: 2.4 The parameters *indent*, *width* and *depth* were added. @@ -113,7 +112,7 @@ The :class:`PrettyPrinter` class supports several derivative functions: Determine if the formatted representation of *object* is "readable," or can be used to reconstruct the value using :func:`eval`. This always returns ``False`` - for recursive objects. :: + for recursive objects. >>> pprint.isreadable(stuff) False @@ -123,8 +122,8 @@ The :class:`PrettyPrinter` class supports several derivative functions: Determine if *object* requires a recursive representation. -One more support function is also defined: +One more support function is also defined: .. function:: saferepr(object) @@ -133,12 +132,8 @@ One more support function is also defined: recursive reference will be represented as ``<Recursion on typename with id=number>``. The representation is not otherwise formatted. -:: - >>> pprint.saferepr(stuff) - "[<Recursion on list with id=682968>, '', '/usr/local/lib/python1.5', '/usr/loca - l/lib/python1.5/test', '/usr/local/lib/python1.5/sunos5', '/usr/local/lib/python - 1.5/sharedmodules', '/usr/local/lib/python1.5/tkinter']" + "[<Recursion on list with id=...>, 'spam', 'eggs', 'lumberjack', 'knights', 'ni']" .. _prettyprinter-objects: |