repr_soso

Prints an object all spread out and indented.

Takes an object like this:

{'format': 2, 'versions': ['ARIA', 'Cakewalk', 'LinuxSampler', 'SFZ v1', 'SFZ v2', 'sfizz'], 'headers': [{'name': 'region', 'short_description': 'The basic component of an instrument. An instrument is defined by one or more regions.', 'version': 'SFZ v1'}, {'name': 'group', 'short_description': 'Multiple regions can be arranged...

... and formats it like this:

{
	"format"	: 2,
	"versions"	: [
		'ARIA',
		'Cakewalk',
		'LinuxSampler',
		'SFZ v1',
		'SFZ v2',
		'sfizz'
	],
	"headers"	: [
		{
			"name"				: 'region',
			"short_description"	: 'The basic component of an instrument. An instrument is defined by one or more regions.',
			"version"			: 'SFZ v1'
		},
		{
			"name"				: 'group',
			"short_description"	: 'Multiple regions can be arranged in a group. Groups allow entering common parameters for multiple regions.',
			"version"			: 'SFZ v1'
		},
		...

Goal

My purpose in creating this was to use it to produce good-looking code which can be placed in the source file of another project (sfzen). I had an expensive operation, building up a large dictionary which never changes. Instead of performing it on every invocation, it made sense to just include the definition in the source. Using repr_soso, I wrote the dictionary directly to a file with a .py extension.

Usage:

from repr_soso import Repr
repr = Repr(big_dictionary)
repr.print()

... or ...

repr(big_dictionary).print()

Speed

This package differs from "rich", which already does this, by doing only one thing, and doing it fast. Testing with a large dictionary produced the following:

rich:       2.1802 seconds
repr_soso:  0.1395 seconds

YMMV.