Formatted printing of deep tuples

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Richard Jones wrote:

> Bored. Wrote this:

Heh. I write some of my best code when bored.

> def format_tuple(out, tuple, indent=''):
>     out('%s(\n'%indent)
>     new_indent = indent+'  '
>     for element in tuple:
>         if type(element) == type(()):
>             format_tuple(out, element, new_indent)
>         else:
>             out('%s%r,\n'%(new_indent, element))
>     out('%s)\n'%indent)
>
> import sys
> out = sys.stdout.write
> format_tuple(out, (((1, 2),), ((), ('a', (('b', 'c'),)))))
>
>
> Might write another before I go home ;)

Already done. Take a look at this:

---
def format_tuple(input, indent=2, _indent=0, chars='()', first=0):
  ret='%s%s' % (_indent*' ', chars[0])
  for element in range(len(input)):
    if element:
      ret=ret+', '
    if type(input[element])==type(()):
      ret=ret+'\n'+format_tuple(input[element], indent, _indent+indent, '()', 0)
      first=1
    elif type(input[element])==type([]):
      ret=ret+'\n'+format_tuple(input[element], indent, _indent+indent, '[]', 0)
      first=1
    else:
      ret=ret+'%s' % (`input[element]`)
      first=0
  ret=ret+'%s%s%s' % (first*'\n', first*_indent*' ', chars[1])
  return ret

print format_tuple((((1, 2),), ((), ('a', (['b', 'c'],)))))
---

I made the ouput a little clearer than my initial spec (like that's a _bad_
thing...).

-- 
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams  <ignacio at openservices.net>