What if a is a tuple of lists? What if b is a class? What if c is a file object? I can't even tell what [d e] means? IMHO the output isn't in "a readable format" at all (perhaps something got lost in the posting).
pprint is as close are you are going to find for a general solution to this problem. -Larry Bates Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 17:25:35 +0800, James Gan wrote: > > >>I want the object printed in a readable format. For example, >>x =[a, b, c, [d e]] will be printed as: >>x--a >> |_b >> |_c >> |___d >> |_e > > > I think you missed an "un-" in your first sentence. > > :-) > > In general, if you want special/fancy/bizarre printing, you should either > write your own custom functions, or sub-class the objects in question. > > E.g. > > def multiline_print(L, indent=""): > """Multi-line printing of lists. > WARNING: Untested and probably full of bugs. > """ > for item in L: > if type(item) == list: > multiline_print(item, indent + " ") > else: > print indent + "|_" + str(item) > > > Hope this helps. > > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
