determining type

[Alex]

> I'm trying to write a function to format the dictionary so that when I
> print it, rather than looking like {'foo' : 'bar', 'who' : 'what'}, it
> looks like
> 
> {
> 'foo' : 'bar',
> 'who' : 'what',
> }

import string

def dictionary_str (d):
    output = ['{\n']
    for pair in d.items ():
        output.append ('%s : %s,\n' % tuple (map (repr, pair)))
    output.append ('}')
    return string.join (output, '')

print dictionary_str ({'foo' : 'bar', 'who' : 'what'})

Hope this helps.
Alex.