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-rw-r--r--Doc/library/pprint.rst214
-rw-r--r--Lib/pprint.py39
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_pprint.py38
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS3
4 files changed, 202 insertions, 92 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/pprint.rst b/Doc/library/pprint.rst
index 3a863318fe..8d57c5d4ed 100644
--- a/Doc/library/pprint.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/pprint.rst
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ The :mod:`pprint` module provides a capability to "pretty-print" arbitrary
Python data structures in a form which can be used as input to the interpreter.
If the formatted structures include objects which are not fundamental Python
types, the representation may not be loadable. This may be the case if objects
-such as files, sockets, classes, or instances are included, as well as many
-other built-in objects which are not representable as Python constants.
+such as files, sockets or classes are included, as well as many other
+objects which are not representable as Python literals.
The formatted representation keeps objects on a single line if it can, and
breaks them onto multiple lines if they don't fit within the allowed width.
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ The :mod:`pprint` module defines one class:
('spam', ('eggs', ('lumberjack', ('knights', ('ni', ('dead', (...)))))))
-The :class:`PrettyPrinter` class supports several derivative functions:
+The :mod:`pprint` module also provides several shortcut functions:
.. function:: pformat(object, indent=1, width=80, depth=None)
@@ -193,101 +193,141 @@ Example
-------
To demonstrate several uses of the :func:`pprint` function and its parameters,
-let's fetch information about a project from PyPI::
+let's fetch information about a project from `PyPI <https://pypi.python.org>`_::
>>> import json
>>> import pprint
>>> from urllib.request import urlopen
- >>> with urlopen('http://pypi.python.org/pypi/configparser/json') as url:
+ >>> with urlopen('http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Twisted/json') as url:
... http_info = url.info()
... raw_data = url.read().decode(http_info.get_content_charset())
>>> project_info = json.loads(raw_data)
- >>> result = {'headers': http_info.items(), 'body': project_info}
In its basic form, :func:`pprint` shows the whole object::
- >>> pprint.pprint(result)
- {'body': {'info': {'_pypi_hidden': False,
- '_pypi_ordering': 12,
- 'classifiers': ['Development Status :: 4 - Beta',
- 'Intended Audience :: Developers',
- 'License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License',
- 'Natural Language :: English',
- 'Operating System :: OS Independent',
- 'Programming Language :: Python',
- 'Programming Language :: Python :: 2',
- 'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6',
- 'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
- 'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries',
- 'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules'],
- 'download_url': 'UNKNOWN',
- 'home_page': 'http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/configparser.html',
- 'keywords': 'configparser ini parsing conf cfg configuration file',
- 'license': 'MIT',
- 'name': 'configparser',
- 'package_url': 'http://pypi.python.org/pypi/configparser',
- 'platform': 'any',
- 'release_url': 'http://pypi.python.org/pypi/configparser/3.2.0r3',
- 'requires_python': None,
- 'stable_version': None,
- 'summary': 'This library brings the updated configparser from Python 3.2+ to Python 2.6-2.7.',
- 'version': '3.2.0r3'},
- 'urls': [{'comment_text': '',
- 'downloads': 47,
- 'filename': 'configparser-3.2.0r3.tar.gz',
- 'has_sig': False,
- 'md5_digest': '8500fd87c61ac0de328fc996fce69b96',
- 'packagetype': 'sdist',
- 'python_version': 'source',
- 'size': 32281,
- 'upload_time': '2011-05-10T16:28:50',
- 'url': 'http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/c/configparser/configparser-3.2.0r3.tar.gz'}]},
- 'headers': [('Date', 'Sat, 14 May 2011 12:48:52 GMT'),
- ('Server', 'Apache/2.2.16 (Debian)'),
- ('Content-Disposition', 'inline'),
- ('Connection', 'close'),
- ('Transfer-Encoding', 'chunked'),
- ('Content-Type', 'application/json; charset="UTF-8"')]}
+ >>> pprint.pprint(project_info)
+ {'info': {'_pypi_hidden': False,
+ '_pypi_ordering': 125,
+ 'author': 'Glyph Lefkowitz',
+ 'author_email': 'glyph@twistedmatrix.com',
+ 'bugtrack_url': '',
+ 'cheesecake_code_kwalitee_id': None,
+ 'cheesecake_documentation_id': None,
+ 'cheesecake_installability_id': None,
+ 'classifiers': ['Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6',
+ 'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
+ 'Programming Language :: Python :: 2 :: Only'],
+ 'description': 'An extensible framework for Python programming, '
+ 'with special focus\r\n'
+ 'on event-based network programming and '
+ 'multiprotocol integration.',
+ 'docs_url': '',
+ 'download_url': 'UNKNOWN',
+ 'home_page': 'http://twistedmatrix.com/',
+ 'keywords': '',
+ 'license': 'MIT',
+ 'maintainer': '',
+ 'maintainer_email': '',
+ 'name': 'Twisted',
+ 'package_url': 'http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Twisted',
+ 'platform': 'UNKNOWN',
+ 'release_url': 'http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Twisted/12.3.0',
+ 'requires_python': None,
+ 'stable_version': None,
+ 'summary': 'An asynchronous networking framework written in Python',
+ 'version': '12.3.0'},
+ 'urls': [{'comment_text': '',
+ 'downloads': 71844,
+ 'filename': 'Twisted-12.3.0.tar.bz2',
+ 'has_sig': False,
+ 'md5_digest': '6e289825f3bf5591cfd670874cc0862d',
+ 'packagetype': 'sdist',
+ 'python_version': 'source',
+ 'size': 2615733,
+ 'upload_time': '2012-12-26T12:47:03',
+ 'url': 'https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/T/Twisted/Twisted-12.3.0.tar.bz2'},
+ {'comment_text': '',
+ 'downloads': 5224,
+ 'filename': 'Twisted-12.3.0.win32-py2.7.msi',
+ 'has_sig': False,
+ 'md5_digest': '6b778f5201b622a5519a2aca1a2fe512',
+ 'packagetype': 'bdist_msi',
+ 'python_version': '2.7',
+ 'size': 2916352,
+ 'upload_time': '2012-12-26T12:48:15',
+ 'url': 'https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/T/Twisted/Twisted-12.3.0.win32-py2.7.msi'}]}
The result can be limited to a certain *depth* (ellipsis is used for deeper
contents)::
- >>> pprint.pprint(result, depth=3)
- {'body': {'info': {'_pypi_hidden': False,
- '_pypi_ordering': 12,
- 'classifiers': [...],
- 'download_url': 'UNKNOWN',
- 'home_page': 'http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/configparser.html',
- 'keywords': 'configparser ini parsing conf cfg configuration file',
- 'license': 'MIT',
- 'name': 'configparser',
- 'package_url': 'http://pypi.python.org/pypi/configparser',
- 'platform': 'any',
- 'release_url': 'http://pypi.python.org/pypi/configparser/3.2.0r3',
- 'requires_python': None,
- 'stable_version': None,
- 'summary': 'This library brings the updated configparser from Python 3.2+ to Python 2.6-2.7.',
- 'version': '3.2.0r3'},
- 'urls': [{...}]},
- 'headers': [('Date', 'Sat, 14 May 2011 12:48:52 GMT'),
- ('Server', 'Apache/2.2.16 (Debian)'),
- ('Content-Disposition', 'inline'),
- ('Connection', 'close'),
- ('Transfer-Encoding', 'chunked'),
- ('Content-Type', 'application/json; charset="UTF-8"')]}
-
-Additionally, maximum *width* can be suggested. If a long object cannot be
-split, the specified width will be exceeded::
-
- >>> pprint.pprint(result['headers'], width=30)
- [('Date',
- 'Sat, 14 May 2011 12:48:52 GMT'),
- ('Server',
- 'Apache/2.2.16 (Debian)'),
- ('Content-Disposition',
- 'inline'),
- ('Connection', 'close'),
- ('Transfer-Encoding',
- 'chunked'),
- ('Content-Type',
- 'application/json; charset="UTF-8"')]
+ >>> pprint.pprint(project_info, depth=2)
+ {'info': {'_pypi_hidden': False,
+ '_pypi_ordering': 125,
+ 'author': 'Glyph Lefkowitz',
+ 'author_email': 'glyph@twistedmatrix.com',
+ 'bugtrack_url': '',
+ 'cheesecake_code_kwalitee_id': None,
+ 'cheesecake_documentation_id': None,
+ 'cheesecake_installability_id': None,
+ 'classifiers': [...],
+ 'description': 'An extensible framework for Python programming, '
+ 'with special focus\r\n'
+ 'on event-based network programming and '
+ 'multiprotocol integration.',
+ 'docs_url': '',
+ 'download_url': 'UNKNOWN',
+ 'home_page': 'http://twistedmatrix.com/',
+ 'keywords': '',
+ 'license': 'MIT',
+ 'maintainer': '',
+ 'maintainer_email': '',
+ 'name': 'Twisted',
+ 'package_url': 'http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Twisted',
+ 'platform': 'UNKNOWN',
+ 'release_url': 'http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Twisted/12.3.0',
+ 'requires_python': None,
+ 'stable_version': None,
+ 'summary': 'An asynchronous networking framework written in Python',
+ 'version': '12.3.0'},
+ 'urls': [{...}, {...}]}
+
+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=2, width=50)
+ {'info': {'_pypi_hidden': False,
+ '_pypi_ordering': 125,
+ 'author': 'Glyph Lefkowitz',
+ 'author_email': 'glyph@twistedmatrix.com',
+ 'bugtrack_url': '',
+ 'cheesecake_code_kwalitee_id': None,
+ 'cheesecake_documentation_id': None,
+ 'cheesecake_installability_id': None,
+ 'classifiers': [...],
+ 'description': 'An extensible '
+ 'framework for '
+ 'Python programming, '
+ 'with special '
+ 'focus\r\n'
+ 'on event-based '
+ 'network programming '
+ 'and multiprotocol '
+ 'integration.',
+ 'docs_url': '',
+ 'download_url': 'UNKNOWN',
+ 'home_page': 'http://twistedmatrix.com/',
+ 'keywords': '',
+ 'license': 'MIT',
+ 'maintainer': '',
+ 'maintainer_email': '',
+ 'name': 'Twisted',
+ 'package_url': 'http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Twisted',
+ 'platform': 'UNKNOWN',
+ 'release_url': 'http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Twisted/12.3.0',
+ 'requires_python': None,
+ 'stable_version': None,
+ 'summary': 'An asynchronous '
+ 'networking framework '
+ 'written in Python',
+ 'version': '12.3.0'},
+ 'urls': [{...}, {...}]}
diff --git a/Lib/pprint.py b/Lib/pprint.py
index ae96dde1e0..1f98f5c5a8 100644
--- a/Lib/pprint.py
+++ b/Lib/pprint.py
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ saferepr()
"""
+import re
import sys as _sys
from collections import OrderedDict as _OrderedDict
from io import StringIO as _StringIO
@@ -158,13 +159,10 @@ class PrettyPrinter:
return
rep = self._repr(object, context, level - 1)
typ = _type(object)
- sepLines = _len(rep) > (self._width - 1 - indent - allowance)
+ max_width = self._width - 1 - indent - allowance
+ sepLines = _len(rep) > max_width
write = stream.write
- if self._depth and level > self._depth:
- write(rep)
- return
-
if sepLines:
r = getattr(typ, "__repr__", None)
if issubclass(typ, dict):
@@ -242,6 +240,37 @@ class PrettyPrinter:
write(endchar)
return
+ if issubclass(typ, str) and len(object) > 0 and r is str.__repr__:
+ def _str_parts(s):
+ """
+ Return a list of string literals comprising the repr()
+ of the given string using literal concatenation.
+ """
+ lines = s.splitlines(True)
+ for i, line in enumerate(lines):
+ rep = repr(line)
+ if _len(rep) <= max_width:
+ yield rep
+ else:
+ # A list of alternating (non-space, space) strings
+ parts = re.split(r'(\s+)', line) + ['']
+ current = ''
+ for i in range(0, len(parts), 2):
+ part = parts[i] + parts[i+1]
+ candidate = current + part
+ if len(repr(candidate)) > max_width:
+ if current:
+ yield repr(current)
+ current = part
+ else:
+ current = candidate
+ if current:
+ yield repr(current)
+ for i, rep in enumerate(_str_parts(object)):
+ if i > 0:
+ write('\n' + ' '*indent)
+ write(rep)
+ return
write(rep)
def _repr(self, object, context, level):
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pprint.py b/Lib/test/test_pprint.py
index d492d75b08..bf136dec06 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_pprint.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pprint.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
import pprint
import test.support
import unittest
@@ -475,6 +477,42 @@ class QueryTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
self.assertEqual(pprint.pformat(dict.fromkeys(keys, 0)),
'{%r: 0, %r: 0}' % tuple(sorted(keys, key=id)))
+ def test_str_wrap(self):
+ # pprint tries to wrap strings intelligently
+ fox = 'the quick brown fox jumped over a lazy dog'
+ self.assertEqual(pprint.pformat(fox, width=20), """\
+'the quick brown '
+'fox jumped over '
+'a lazy dog'""")
+ self.assertEqual(pprint.pformat({'a': 1, 'b': fox, 'c': 2},
+ width=26), """\
+{'a': 1,
+ 'b': 'the quick brown '
+ 'fox jumped over '
+ 'a lazy dog',
+ 'c': 2}""")
+ # With some special characters
+ # - \n always triggers a new line in the pprint
+ # - \t and \n are escaped
+ # - non-ASCII is allowed
+ # - an apostrophe doesn't disrupt the pprint
+ special = "Portons dix bons \"whiskys\"\nà l'avocat goujat\t qui fumait au zoo"
+ self.assertEqual(pprint.pformat(special, width=20), """\
+'Portons dix bons '
+'"whiskys"\\n'
+"à l'avocat "
+'goujat\\t qui '
+'fumait au zoo'""")
+ # An unwrappable string is formatted as its repr
+ unwrappable = "x" * 100
+ self.assertEqual(pprint.pformat(unwrappable, width=80), repr(unwrappable))
+ self.assertEqual(pprint.pformat(''), "''")
+ # Check that the pprint is a usable repr
+ special *= 10
+ for width in range(3, 40):
+ formatted = pprint.pformat(special, width=width)
+ self.assertEqual(eval("(" + formatted + ")"), special)
+
class DottedPrettyPrinter(pprint.PrettyPrinter):
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 1ee9c8b910..27dc328284 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -294,6 +294,9 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
-------
+- Issue #17150: pprint now uses line continuations to wrap long string
+ literals.
+
- Issue #17488: Change the subprocess.Popen bufsize parameter default value
from unbuffered (0) to buffering (-1) to match the behavior existing code
expects and match the behavior of the subprocess module in Python 2 to avoid