Any way to properly pretty-print ordered dictionaries?

Question

I like the pprint module in Python. I use it a lot for testing and debugging. I frequently use the width option to make sure the output fits nicely within my terminal window

Answer 1

To print an ordered dict, e.g.

from collections import OrderedDict

d=OrderedDict([
    ('a', OrderedDict([
        ('a1',1),
        ('a2','sss')
    ])),
    ('b', OrderedDict([
        ('b1', OrderedDict([
            ('bb1',1),
            ('bb2',4.5)])),
        ('b2',4.5)
    ])),
])

I do

def dict_or_OrdDict_to_formatted_str(OD, mode='dict', s="", indent=' '*4, level=0):
    def is_number(s):
        try:
            float(s)
            return True
        except ValueError:
            return False
    def fstr(s):
        return s if is_number(s) else '"%s"'%s
    if mode != 'dict':
        kv_tpl = '("%s", %s)'
        ST = 'OrderedDict([\n'; END = '])'
    else:
        kv_tpl = '"%s": %s'
        ST = '{\n'; END = '}'
    for i,k in enumerate(OD.keys()):
        if type(OD[k]) in [dict, OrderedDict]:
            level += 1
            s += (level-1)*indent+kv_tpl%(k,ST+dict_or_OrdDict_to_formatted_str(OD[k], mode=mode, indent=indent, level=level)+(level-1)*indent+END)
            level -= 1
        else:
            s += level*indent+kv_tpl%(k,fstr(OD[k]))
        if i!=len(OD)-1:
            s += ","
        s += "\n"
    return s

print dict_or_OrdDict_to_formatted_str(d)

Which yields

"a": {
    "a1": 1,
    "a2": "sss"
},
"b": {
    "b1": {
        "bb1": 1,
        "bb2": 4.5
    },
    "b2": 4.5
}

or

print dict_or_OrdDict_to_formatted_str(d, mode='OD')

which yields

("a", OrderedDict([
    ("a1", 1),
    ("a2", "sss")
])),
("b", OrderedDict([
    ("b1", OrderedDict([
        ("bb1", 1),
        ("bb2", 4.5)
    ])),
    ("b2", 4.5)
]))