any plans to make pprint() a builtin?

Edward Elliott nobody at 127.0.0.1
Tue May 16 21:47:02 EDT 2006


Ant wrote:

> Longer, messy, and what's the actual point? Wouldn't:
> 
> import pprint as pp
> pp.pprint(x)
> 
> be better, standard *and* shorter?

why not just:

from pprint import pprint
pprint (x)

No need to modify the interpreter when you can pollute the global namespace
yourself just as easily.

-- 
Edward Elliott
UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall)
complangpython at eddeye dot net



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