RetroSearch Browse

Tue Dec 2 13:45:41 EST 2003 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-December/040594.html

Walter Dörwald writes:
 > Currently pprint refuses to prettyprint subclasses of list,
 > tuple and dict. Does it make sense to change that for 2.4?
 > 
 > Of course once __repr__() is overwritten by a subclass,
 > pprint has to use that instead of its own formatting.

There's a patch for this that's on my list of things to look at I
think.  The discussion associated with the patch had the right idea,
but I've not had time to review the patch (which I think is
embarrassingly short); if you'd like to do so, be my guest!

  -Fred

-- 
Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fdrake at acm.org>
PythonLabs at Zope Corporation

Home - News ( United States | United Kingdom | Italy | Germany ) - Football scores

Showing content from https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-December/040594.html below:

[Python-Dev] pprint and list/tuple/dict subclasses