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

The pprint() method is just invoking the __repr__() method of things in it, and OrderedDict doesn't appear to do much in it's method (or doesn't have one or something).

Here's a cheap solution that should work IF YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT THE ORDER BEING VISIBLE IN THE PPRINT OUTPUT, which may be a big if:

class PrintableOrderedDict(OrderedDict):
    def __repr__(self):
        return dict.__repr__(self)

I'm actually surprised that the order isn't preserved... ah well.