Dictionary in list

Question

I want to print a dictionary inside a list like this :

[{name : 'red', id : '1'}, {name : 'yellow', id : '2'}, {name : 'black', id : '3'}, {name : 'white', id : '4'}]`

I don't want quotations in name and id. However, I want them in the values portion of that dictionary.

Answer 1

You'd have to write your own formatting function to do that.

Here's a hairy but terse function that does what you want:

def pretty_print(data):
    return '[%s]' % ', '.join(
        '{%s}' % ', '.join(
            '%s : %r' % (key, value) for key, value in item.items()
        ) for item in data
    )

So the following code:

print(pretty_print([
    {'name': 'red', 'id': '1'},
    {'name': 'yellow', 'id': '2'},
]))

Would print:

[{name : 'red', id : '1'}, {name : 'yellow', id : '2'}]