pprint

  • provides a capability to “pretty-print” arbitrary Python data structures
In [ ]:
stuff = ['spam', 'eggs', 'lumberjack', 'knights', 'ni']
stuff.insert(0, stuff[:])
In [5]:
from pprint import pprint

print(stuff)
pprint(stuff)

[['spam', 'eggs', 'lumberjack', 'knights', 'ni'], 'spam', 'eggs', 'lumberjack', 'knights', 'ni']
[['spam', 'eggs', 'lumberjack', 'knights', 'ni'],
 'spam',
 'eggs',
 'lumberjack',
 'knights',
 'ni']
In [8]:
from pprint import PrettyPrinter

pp = PrettyPrinter(width=41, compact=True)
pp.pprint(stuff)

[['spam', 'eggs', 'lumberjack',
  'knights', 'ni'],
 'spam', 'eggs', 'lumberjack', 'knights',
 'ni']

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