Why does not pprint work?

[robkotenko at gmail.com]

With the way you have imported, you trying to use the module pprint instead of the function pprint.pprint.  

You need to use pprint.pprint or you need to import as:

from pprint import pprint

if you want to use the shorter form.

On Tuesday, July 22, 2014 5:42:02 PM UTC-4, fl wrote:
> Hi,
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> I read web tutorial at: 
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> http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201308/names_and_values_making_a_game_board.html
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> I enter the example lines of that website:
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> import pprint
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> board = [ [0]*8 ] * 8
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> pprint(board)
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> It echos error with Python 2.7:
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> Traceback (most recent call last):
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>   File "C:\Python27\Lib\SITE-P~1\PYTHON~2\pywin\framework\scriptutils.py", 
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> line 323, in RunScript
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>     debugger.run(codeObject, __main__.__dict__, start_stepping=0)
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>   File "C:\Python27\Lib\SITE-P~1\PYTHON~2\pywin\debugger\__init__.py", 
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> line 60, in run
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>     _GetCurrentDebugger().run(cmd, globals,locals, start_stepping)
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>   File "C:\Python27\Lib\SITE-P~1\PYTHON~2\pywin\debugger\debugger.py", 
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> line 655, in run
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>     exec cmd in globals, locals
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>   File "C:\cygwin64\home\Jeff\Python_lesson\ppn.py", line 1, in <module>
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>     import pprint
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> TypeError: 'module' object is not callable
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> It has similar error with Python 3.4.1.
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> Why does pprint not work?
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> Thanks,