Feature Requests item #1351692, was opened at 2005-11-08 16:29
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Category: Python Library
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Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Mark Hirota (markhirota)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Switch to make pprint.pprint display ints and longs in hex
Initial Comment:
It would be nice to have some sort of switch or hook to
allow 'pretty-printing' of integers and long integers in
hexidecimal. So, for example:
>>> import pprint
>>> pprint.pprint(range(10)) # instead of this:
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
>>> pprint.hexint = True
>>> pprint.pprint(range(10)) # you would get this:
[0x0, 0x1, 0x2, 0x3, 0x4, 0x5, 0x6, 0x7, 0x8, 0x9]
>>> pprint.pprint(range(0x100000000,0x100000010)) #
and this:
[0x100000000L,
0x100000001L,
0x100000002L,
0x100000003L,
0x100000004L,
0x100000005L,
0x100000006L,
0x100000007L,
0x100000008L,
0x100000009L,
0x10000000AL,
0x10000000BL,
0x10000000CL,
0x10000000DL,
0x10000000EL,
0x10000000FL]
>>>
Thanks,
--MH
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>Comment By: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger)
Date: 2005-11-12 15:02
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IMO, such a rewrite would expose too many of pprint's
internals and make the module harder to
use/understand/maintain. Wouldn't it be better to stick
with the usual idiom for controlling the repr() formatting
of specific types by using a class wrapper:
>>> from pprint import pprint
>>> class Int(int):
def __repr__(self):
return hex(self)
>>> pprint([Int(x) for x in range(0x10000000,0x10000010)])
[0x10000000,
0x10000001,
0x10000002,
0x10000003,
0x10000004,
0x10000005,
0x10000006,
0x10000007,
0x10000008,
0x10000009,
0x1000000a,
0x1000000b,
0x1000000c,
0x1000000d,
0x1000000e,
0x1000000f]
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Comment By: Walter Dörwald (doerwalter)
Date: 2005-11-12 14:29
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I think it's more of a limitation. I seems to me the main
focus in implementing pprint was speed not extensibility.
The code uses every trick in the book (e.g. turning globals
and builtins into locals, using bound methods etc.). I think
it was never ment to do anything other than what repr()
does, but with better formatting. However IMHO making pprint
extensible would be a worthwile project.
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Comment By: Mark Hirota (markhirota)
Date: 2005-11-11 12:47
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Is this bypassing considered a limitation or a bug? I am,
however, able to workaround the issue by setting the
width=1: "mpp = MyPrettyPrinter(1,1)" -- it just means that
instead of:
>>> mpp.pprint(range(10))
[0x0, 0x1, 0x2, 0x3, 0x4, 0x5, 0x6, 0x7, 0x8, 0x9]
I get instead:
>>> mpp.pprint(range(10))
[0x0,
0x1,
0x2,
0x3,
0x4,
0x5,
0x6,
0x7,
0x8,
0x9]
...which is OK for my uses. Thanks!
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Comment By: Walter Dörwald (doerwalter)
Date: 2005-11-10 17:56
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In theory this should be possible by subclassing
pprint.PrettyPrinter and overwritting the format method:
import pprint
class MyPrettyPrinter(pprint.PrettyPrinter):
def format(self, object, context, maxlevels, level):
if isinstance(object, int):
return hex(object), True, False
else:
return pprint.PrettyPrinter.format(self, object,
context, maxlevels, level)
mpp = MyPrettyPrinter()
mpp.pprint(range(50))
This doesn't work reliable though: When the string is short
enough, format() seems to be bypassed and repr() is called
directly.
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Comment By: Reinhold Birkenfeld (birkenfeld)
Date: 2005-11-09 16:45
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Moving to Feature Requests.
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