Is there a Python equivalent to Perl's Data::Dumper for inspecting data structures?

Question

Is there a Python module that can be used in the same way as Perl\'s Data::Dumper module?

Edit: Sorry, I should have been clearer. I was mainly afte

Answer 1

I think the closest you will find is the pprint module.

>>> l = [1, 2, 3, 4]
>>> l.append(l)
>>> d = {1: l, 2: 'this is a string'}
>>> print d
{1: [1, 2, 3, 4, [...]], 2: 'this is a string'}

>>> pprint.pprint(d)
{1: [1, 2, 3, 4, ],
 2: 'this is a string'}