How to Format dict string outputs nicely

Question

I wonder if there is an easy way to format Strings of dict-outputs such as this:

{
  \'planet\' : {
    \'name\' : \'Earth\',
    \'has\' : {
      \'plants\         


        

Answer 1

Use pprint

import pprint

x  = {
  'planet' : {
    'name' : 'Earth',
    'has' : {
      'plants' : 'yes',
      'animals' : 'yes',
      'cryptonite' : 'no'
    }
  }
}
pp = pprint.PrettyPrinter(indent=4)
pp.pprint(x)

This outputs

{   'planet': {   'has': {   'animals': 'yes',
                             'cryptonite': 'no',
                             'plants': 'yes'},
                  'name': 'Earth'}}

Play around with pprint formatting and you can get the desired result.

• http://docs.python.org/library/pprint.html