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Author rhettinger
Recipients amaury.forgeotdarc, bpb, eric.araujo, fdrake, jackdied, ncw, rhettinger, terry.reedy
Date 2010-09-29.00:14:34
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Ben, I don't think there is any value is opening more issues like pprint-doesn't-handle-object-x (named tuples, defautdicts, deques, generators, etc).

As it is currently designed, pprint doesn't offer usable hooks and it is not easy to build-out to handle new object types.  For the most part, users just cast to a list before calling pprint.

ISTM, the RightAnswer(tm) is to overhaul pprint and add hooks for handling new objects.  Ideally, there would be flexible print options and reprlib-like features for limiting output and for marking recursive constructs with "..."

It would be better to start fresh than to continually pile on to the current hodge-podge.
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