pnprint 1.3

format and color serialized data strings to make them more human readable

nprint

This is a module providing convenient functions to format, color and print any string to highlight any contained data structures.

It intends to replace the well known pprint, to format python objects on output

from nprint import nprint

data = {
	'name': 'mydict',
	'comment': 'this is a dictionnary',
	'field': (5, 6),
	'long one': [12324232, 53445645645, 'truc', 345345345345345356, (456,45), 'bla bla bla', 'blo blo blo', 'things and so'],
	'some text': '/!\\  even content of strings are formated:\n  {345, 23, 17, [2,1]}  as you see\n',
	}

installation

using pip:

pip install pnprint

or copy nprint.py from this repo to any directory you want !

functions provided:

• nprint(*args, indent=0, color=True, end='\n')

  the pprint replacement: it works as print() but works on strings instead of working on already known objects

  it splits too long lines into indented blocks by syntax markers (such as {}()[], etc)

  be careful: as print, nprint uses the string conversion str(obj) to convert an object passed, if you want to use the string representation, then you'll have to pass repr(obj) to nprint or nformat

• nformat(text, indent=0, width=100) -> str

  split a text into indented lines

• ncolor(text) -> str

  add color makers for terminals syntax highlighting

• deformat(text) -> str

  remove formatting of all marker-enclosed text