Based on the conversations stemming from my previous post, it is clear that the topic was too implementation-specific. It is not clear whether dunder methods are an appropriate component of the solution (they might or might not be).
Also, it presumably makes sense to start by looking at prior art rather than inventing from scratch. Quotes from previous thread regarding prior art to look at: Jonathan Fine wrote: <snip> > 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 Alex Hall wrote: > Might be helpful to look at https://github.com/tommikaikkonen/prettyprinter > and https://github.com/wolever/pprintpp _______________________________________________ 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/MQVTUDPIX7LWTPMPSBAQLPCDZSPMBUEU/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
