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Author serhiy.storchaka
Recipients benjamin.peterson, pablogsal, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, terry.reedy
Date 2020-03-17.08:06:12
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Currently ast.dump() in multiline mode (see issue37995) appends closing parenthesis to the end of the line:

>>> import ast
>>> node = ast.parse('spam(eggs, "and cheese")')
>>> print(ast.dump(node, indent=3))
Module(
   body=[
      Expr(
         value=Call(
            func=Name(id='spam', ctx=Load()),
            args=[
               Name(id='eggs', ctx=Load()),
               Constant(value='and cheese')],
            keywords=[]))],
   type_ignores=[])

It uses vertical space more efficiently (which is especially important on Windows console).

But I got a feedback about output closing parenthesis on separate lines (msg363783):

Module(
   body=[
      Expr(
         value=Call(
            func=Name(id='spam', ctx=Load()),
            args=[
               Name(id='eggs', ctx=Load()),
               Constant(value='and cheese')
            ],
            keywords=[]
         )
      )
   ],
   type_ignores=[]
)

It looks more "balanced", but less vertical space efficient. It adds almost 300 lines to 57 examples in Doc/library/ast.rst. And after omitting optional list arguments like keywords=[] and type_ignores=[] (see issue39981) the stairs of parenthesis will look even longer.

The proposed PR changes the output of ast.dump() by moving closing parenthesis on separate lines. I am still not sure what output is better.
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2020-03-17 08:06:12serhiy.storchakasetrecipients: + serhiy.storchaka, rhettinger, terry.reedy, benjamin.peterson, pablogsal
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