Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment:
Eric nailed it; pprint was not designed as a replacement for print, and was
never intended to serve that purpose.
Rejecting as out of scope.
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resolution: -> rejected
stage: -> resolved
status: open -> closed
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Eric V. Smith added the comment:
pprint.pprint is not designed to be a drop-in replacement for print. At this
point, we cannot break existing code to change how pprint works.
I suggest you make a pprint.pprint wrapper that does what you want, or maybe
subclass pprint.PrettyPrinter.
Gavin D'souza added the comment:
if pprint is called without parameters, it returns a TypeError
>>> pprint()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
TypeError: pprint() missing 1 required positional argument: 'object'
it would be beneficial however to return an empty string
New submission from Gavin D'souza :
For a simple string input, pprint would be expected to return an output similar
to print. However, the functionality differs
### Code:
import time
from pprint import pprint
start = time.time()
time.sleep(0.5)
object_made = time.time()
time.sleep(0.5)
done =
