Jonathan Fine wrote: > Hi Steve (for clarity Jorgensen) > Thank you for your good idea, and your enthusiasm. And I thank Guido, for > suggesting a good contribution this list can make. > Here's some comments on the state of the art. In addition to > https://docs.python.org/3/library/pprint.html > there's also > https://docs.python.org/3/library/reprlib.html > and > https://docs.python.org/3/library/json.html > I expect that these three modules have some overlap in purpose and design > (but probably not in code). > And if you're brave, there's also > https://docs.python.org/3/library/pickle.html > and > https://github.com/psf/black > Time to declare a special interest. I'm a long-time user and great fan of > TeX / LaTeX. And some nice way of pretty-printing Python objects using TeX > notation could be useful. > And also related is Geoffrey French's Larch environment for editing Python, > which has a pretty-printing component. > http://www.britefury.com/larch_site/ > with best wishes > Jonathan
I feel kind of silly for jumping right to the idea of prototyping rather than looking for prior art. :) It clearly makes more sense to choose an existing popular library as a candidate starting point for promotion into the stdlib rather than starting from scratch. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/OHMJBHPBLOUQ42E6J4YGOGNUBLWUFAH4/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
