[issue5131] pprint doesn't know how to print a defaultdict

[Nick Craig-Wood]

Nick Craig-Wood <nick at craig-wood.com> added the comment:

Terry J. Reedy (terry.reedy) wrote:
> > IMHO pprint should be able to make a decent job of all the built in types 
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> Agreed, already true as far as I know, and irrelevant. This issue is not about built-in types in the builtins module, as documented Lib Ref chapter 5 *Built-in Types*. Collections is an Python-coded stdlib  module that happens to import a couple of its classes from _collections, written in C for speed. 

My bad - not precise enough!  I meant all the stdlib types rather than the builtin types.

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