[PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] New pretty printer

[Paul. Dubois]

I suggest a default size of 79 (or 77 as suggested by Guido). Exactly 80
causes wrap in some display vehicles.

I didn't look yet at how you did it but perhaps a user-settable
precision could be managed. I have done that in both Basis and
EiffelMath. Guido is right about the timing too; if there are enough
components that you have to worry about the timing to print it, nobody
is going to print it anyway or look at it if they do.

One thing I did in Basis was an optional "compression" that compressed
identical rows (or strings of identical elements in 1-D). 
Basis> ones(10000)
ones(10000)        shape: (10000)
     1: 9976    -  1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
1 1
  9977:         -  1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Basis> shape([1,2,3]//ones(10000)//[5,6],2001,5)
shape([1,2,3]//ones(10000)//[5,6],2001,5)   shape: (2001,5)
 row col =            1 2 3 4 5
    1:        -       1 1 1 1 1
    2:        -       2 1 1 1 1
    3:        -       3 1 1 1 1
    4:1999    -       1 1 1 1 1
 2000:        -       1 1 1 1 5
 2001:        -       1 1 1 1 6
Basis> 

This has proven useful.
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