[Python-Dev] pprint and list/tuple/dict subclasses

[Walter Dörwald]

Hunter Peress wrote:

> I see the arguments,but the following code works fine. so what exactly is the issue?
> 
> #!/usr/bin/python
> import sys,commands,os,re,string
> from pprint import pprint as ppr
> 
> class t(list):
>   pass
> 
> inst = t()
> inst.append(1)
> inst.append({2:3})
> inst.append([4,5,6,[7,8]])
> 
> ppr(inst)

This uses list.__repr__(), but you won't see any difference because the
string is too short.

Bye,
    Walter Dörwald