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

Here is my approach to pretty print an OrderedDict

from collections import OrderedDict
import json
d = OrderedDict()
d['duck'] = 'alive'
d['parrot'] = 'dead'
d['penguin'] = 'exploded'
d['Falcon'] = 'discharged'
print(d)
print(json.dumps(d,indent=4))

OutPut:

OrderedDict([('duck', 'alive'), ('parrot', 'dead'), ('penguin', 'exploded'), ('Falcon', 'discharged')])

{
    "duck": "alive",
    "parrot": "dead",
    "penguin": "exploded",
    "Falcon": "discharged"
}

If you want to pretty print dictionary with keys in sorted order

print(json.dumps(indent=4,sort_keys=True))
{
    "Falcon": "discharged",
    "duck": "alive",
    "parrot": "dead",
    "penguin": "exploded"
}