And if the format is not overly strict, one could also use 'print json.dumps (obj, indent=3)'. That gives a reasonable representation of most structures, though it does choke (in my environment) on my less-trivial example due to the use of a tuple as a key...
If you want to pretty-print the key-value pairs as a dictionary, then the json.dumps in the standard library could be useful to create a string which could be printed.
30 Python's dictionaries have no order, so indexing like you are suggesting (fruits[2]) makes no sense as you can't retrieve the second element of something that has no order. They are merely sets of key:value pairs. To retrieve the value at key: 'kiwi', simply do: fruit['kiwi']. This is the most fundamental way to access the value of a certain ...
How can I pretty print a dictionary with depth of ~4 in Python? I tried pretty printing with pprint(), but it did not work: import pprint pp = pprint.PrettyPrinter(indent=4) pp.pprint(mydict) I s...
– KBurchfiel Mar 27, 2022 at 5:15 If you have Python>3.7 and want to print a dictionary key in a specific position, try this Q/A: Accessing dict_keys element by index in Python3 – cottontail Mar 26, 2024 at 17:46
The Python pprint module actually already sorts dictionaries by key. In versions prior to Python 2.5, the sorting was only triggered on dictionaries whose pretty-printed representation spanned multiple lines, but in 2.5.X and 2.6.X, all dictionaries are sorted. Generally, though, if you're writing data structures to a file and want them human-readable and writable, you might want to consider ...
Is it possible to get a partial view of a dict in Python analogous of pandas df.tail()/df.head(). Say you have a very long dict, and you just want to check some of the elements (the beginning, the ...
