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Daniel Arbuckle's Mastering Python
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Daniel Arbuckle's Mastering Python

by Daniel Arbuckle
June 2017
Beginner to intermediate
274 pages
6h 49m
English
Packt Publishing
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The pprint package

The pprint function, from the package of the same name, makes complex data structures much more readable. If we want to display a list of dictionaries, pprint will do a better job of it than the print function would.

Create a special.py file with the following code:

Run the following command to execute the special.py file:

python3 special.py   

The following screenshot is the output of the preceding command:

Between these four functions - print, input, getpass, and pprint - there's a wide range of user interfaces we could ...

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