pprint dictionary on multiple lines

Question

I'm trying to get a pretty print of a dictionary, but I'm having no luck:

>>> import pprint >>> a = {'first': 123, 'second': 456, 'third': {1:1, 2:2}} >>> pprint.pprint(a) {'first': 123, 'second': 456, 'third': {1: 1, 2: 2}} 

I wanted the output to be on multiple lines, something like this:

{'first': 123,  'second': 456,  'third': {1: 1,            2: 2} } 

Can pprint do this? If not, then which module does it? I'm using Python 2.7.3.

Answer 1

Use width=1 or width=-1:

In [33]: pprint.pprint(a, width=1) {'first': 123,  'second': 456,  'third': {1: 1,            2: 2}}