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[3.12] GH-115986 Docs: promote pprint.pp usage as a default (GH-116614)…
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Co-authored-by: Kerim Kabirov <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <[email protected]>
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*args* and *kwargs* will be passed to :func:`~pprint.pprint` as formatting
parameters.

>>> import pprint
>>> stuff = ['spam', 'eggs', 'lumberjack', 'knights', 'ni']
>>> stuff.insert(0, stuff)
>>> pprint.pp(stuff)
[<Recursion on list with id=...>,
'spam',
'eggs',
'lumberjack',
'knights',
'ni']

.. versionadded:: 3.8


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:class:`PrettyPrinter` constructor and their meanings are as
described in its documentation below.

>>> import pprint
>>> stuff = ['spam', 'eggs', 'lumberjack', 'knights', 'ni']
>>> stuff.insert(0, stuff)
>>> pprint.pprint(stuff)
[<Recursion on list with id=...>,
'spam',
'eggs',
'lumberjack',
'knights',
'ni']
Note that *sort_dicts* is ``True`` by default and you might want to use
:func:`~pprint.pp` instead where it is ``False`` by default.

.. function:: pformat(object, indent=1, width=80, depth=None, *, \
compact=False, sort_dicts=True, underscore_numbers=False)
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Example
-------

To demonstrate several uses of the :func:`~pprint.pprint` function and its parameters,
To demonstrate several uses of the :func:`~pprint.pp` function and its parameters,
let's fetch information about a project from `PyPI <https://pypi.org>`_::

>>> import json
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>>> with urlopen('https://pypi.org/pypi/sampleproject/json') as resp:
... project_info = json.load(resp)['info']

In its basic form, :func:`~pprint.pprint` shows the whole object::
In its basic form, :func:`~pprint.pp` shows the whole object::

>>> pprint.pprint(project_info)
>>> pprint.pp(project_info)
{'author': 'The Python Packaging Authority',
'author_email': '[email protected]',
'bugtrack_url': None,
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The result can be limited to a certain *depth* (ellipsis is used for deeper
contents)::

>>> pprint.pprint(project_info, depth=1)
>>> pprint.pp(project_info, depth=1)
{'author': 'The Python Packaging Authority',
'author_email': '[email protected]',
'bugtrack_url': None,
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Additionally, maximum character *width* can be suggested. If a long object
cannot be split, the specified width will be exceeded::

>>> pprint.pprint(project_info, depth=1, width=60)
>>> pprint.pp(project_info, depth=1, width=60)
{'author': 'The Python Packaging Authority',
'author_email': '[email protected]',
'bugtrack_url': None,
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