On 7/21/2020 7:36 PM, Rob Cliffe wrote:
On 21/07/2020 21:00, Eric V. Smith wrote:
f-strings call PyObject_Repr directly, without going through builtins.
If we added !p as described here, we'd need to call import every time
we execute !p, because we don't know if it's been imported yet. At
runtime, we'd call "pformat()" via sys.modules['pprint'] after the
import. That could of course be monkey patched.
But I'm still not sure this is a good idea. I can't find the issue on
bpo where this was mentioned, but some of the issues that spring to
mind are:
- Most pprint output is multi-line. Is that a good thing with f-strings?
Why not? f-strings (as of course you know) can already contain
multiple lines, even if the usage is not frequent. ISTM this
objection has no substance.
But with pprint, it's not unusual, it's common. That feels qualitatively
different to me.
- How to handle parameters to pprint.pformat()?
This doesn't seem insurmountable. IIUC the relevant parameters are
indent, width, depth, compact, sort_dicts. They could be added after
`!p` separated by some separator - let's say comma for the sake of
argument - with absent parameters taking the default values. So e.g.
!p2 # means indent=2
!p,60 # means width=60. Etc.
If the pformat API were ever changed, adding extra parameters would
not cause backward incompatibility. Removing parameters or changing
their order would, but both seem extremely unlikely to me (YMMV) and I
expect users of !p could live with that.
I can't support embedding all of these params in the format string.
Format strings are hard enough to understand as it is.
At this point, you'd be better off with calling pprint.pformat()
explicitely.
f'value={pprint.pformat(value, indent=2, width=60)}'
I might be able to get behind sort of a "pprint context", like a decimal
context, with a context manager to specify it.
- Is pprint.pformat() extensible enough? Can an object control how it
is pretty printed?
I'm not sure if I fully understand this objection. It seems to be
suggesting a deficiency in the current pprint.pformat. The proposal
would not change anything here.
I'm not super familiar with pprint, but IIRC an object can't specify its
own formatting, can it? If I wrote a dict-like object, not inheriting
from dict, and I wanted to control how it's pprint'ed, can I do that?
I'm sure there are others.
Could you specify.?
I'll try and find the issues to see what else Raymond and I already wrote.
I'm not saying I'm +1 on the proposal. Just that there don't seem to
be any insurmountable obstacles to it. My greatest unease is an
implicit import. Are there other areas of Python where this happens?
I'm not sure. But this part doesn't really bother me. Maybe it should,
and it would be another reason not to move forward!
Eric
As I've said before, I'd prefer a revamped "pretty formatting"
library, probably using singledispatch for extensibility. But even
with that, issues like parameterizing the output remain.
Eric
On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 8:04 PM Rob Cliffe via Python-ideas
<python-ideas@python.org <mailto:python-ideas@python.org>> wrote:
That seems like a nice idea, but what would happen if pprint had
not
been imported? NameError?
Rob Cliffe
On 16/07/2020 05:34, Charles Machalow wrote:
> Right now in str.format(), we have !s, !r, and !a to allow us
to call str(), repr(), and ascii() respectively on the given
expression.
>
> I'm proposing that we add a !p conversion to have
pprint.pformat() be called to convert the given expression to a
'pretty' string.
>
> Calling
> ```
> print(f"My dict: {d!p}")
> ```
>
> is a lot more concise than:
>
> ```
> import pprint
> print(f"My dict: {pprint.pformat(d)}")
> ```
>
> We may even be able to have a static attribute stored to
change the various default kwargs of pprint.pformat().
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