Prettyprint to a file?

Question

I'm using this gist's tree, and now I'm trying to figure out how to prettyprint to a file. Any tips?

Answer 1

What you need is Pretty Print pprint module:

from pprint import pprint  # Build the tree somehow  with open('output.txt', 'wt') as out:     pprint(myTree, stream=out) 

Answer 2

Another general-purpose alternative is Pretty Print's pformat() method, which creates a pretty string. You can then send that out to a file. For example:

import pprint data = dict(a=1, b=2) output_s = pprint.pformat(data) #          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ with open('output.txt', 'w') as file:     file.write(output_s)