To me it also seems to be the most sensible behaviour, since
dictionaries with their keys and values are different from most other
sequences.
You've got a point but
1. That goes against the compact=True expected behaviour
2. Small dicts (e.g. /{x: x for x in range(5)}/) are still printed on a
On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 1:58 PM, Nicolas Hug wrote:
> pprint({x: x for x in range(15)}, compact=True)
>
> would be be printed in 15 lines while it could fit on 2.
>
>
> Is this a bug or was this decided on purpose?
It is on purpose as can be seen in the code for pprint [1], which
calls _format [2
Is there a reason why the 'compact' parameter is ignored when pretty
printing a dict? For example:
pprint({x: x for x in range(15)}, compact=True)
would be be printed in 15 lines while it could fit on 2.
Is this a bug or was this decided on purpose?
Thank you!
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