PrettyPrint python into a string, and not stdout

Question

I'd like to use prettyprint to print out a dictionary, but into a string and not to console. This string is to be passed on to other functions.

I know I can use the "stream" parameter to specify a file instead of sys.out but I want a string.

How do I do that?

Answer 1

You should simply call the pformat function from the pprint module:

import pprint s = pprint.pformat(aDict)