PrettyPrint not outputing anything !!

[James J. Besemer]

> Sunit Joshi wrote:
>
> > str = StringIO.StringIO()
> > PrettyPrint(sXml,str)
> > str.getvalue()
> > prints ''
> >
> > Any ideas what might be wrong.

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> I'm pretty sure PrettyPrint wants a parsed document, not a string.

No.  The capability when properly accepts arbitrary Python data.

Usage is a little non-intuitive.  I bet Sunit's error is in calling the
function factory rather than the generated pretty printer.

Proper usage:

    import pprint

    pp = pprint.PrettyPrinter(indent=4)  # create a printer function
    pp.pprint( sXml )                # use the created function on data

That should "pretty print" your string.

However, since it's just a string, I'm not sure it'll be much prettier
than with just print.

You also don't say what you really expect.

I'm guessing but the following might help:

    pp.pprint( sXml.split())

Or probably you want to pretty print your XML.
I have no idea how to do that.

REgards

--jb


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