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| 57 | 3.27.1 PrettyPrinter Objects |
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| 60 | <P> |
| 61 | <tt class="class">PrettyPrinter</tt> instances have the following methods: |
| 62 | |
| 63 | <P> |
| 64 | <dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline"> |
| 65 | <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-769' xml:id='l2h-769' class="method">pformat</tt></b>(</nobr></td> |
| 66 | <td><var>object</var>)</td></tr></table></dt> |
| 67 | <dd> |
| 68 | Return the formatted representation of <var>object</var>. This takes into |
| 69 | Account the options passed to the <tt class="class">PrettyPrinter</tt> constructor. |
| 70 | </dl> |
| 71 | |
| 72 | <P> |
| 73 | <dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline"> |
| 74 | <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-770' xml:id='l2h-770' class="method">pprint</tt></b>(</nobr></td> |
| 75 | <td><var>object</var>)</td></tr></table></dt> |
| 76 | <dd> |
| 77 | Print the formatted representation of <var>object</var> on the configured |
| 78 | stream, followed by a newline. |
| 79 | </dl> |
| 80 | |
| 81 | <P> |
| 82 | The following methods provide the implementations for the |
| 83 | corresponding functions of the same names. Using these methods on an |
| 84 | instance is slightly more efficient since new <tt class="class">PrettyPrinter</tt> |
| 85 | objects don't need to be created. |
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| 89 | <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-771' xml:id='l2h-771' class="method">isreadable</tt></b>(</nobr></td> |
| 90 | <td><var>object</var>)</td></tr></table></dt> |
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| 92 | Determine if the formatted representation of the object is |
| 93 | ``readable,'' or can be used to reconstruct the value using |
| 94 | <tt class="function">eval()</tt><a id='l2h-772' xml:id='l2h-772'></a>. Note that this returns false for |
| 95 | recursive objects. If the <var>depth</var> parameter of the |
| 96 | <tt class="class">PrettyPrinter</tt> is set and the object is deeper than allowed, |
| 97 | this returns false. |
| 98 | </dl> |
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| 102 | <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-773' xml:id='l2h-773' class="method">isrecursive</tt></b>(</nobr></td> |
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| 105 | Determine if the object requires a recursive representation. |
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| 109 | This method is provided as a hook to allow subclasses to modify the |
| 110 | way objects are converted to strings. The default implementation uses |
| 111 | the internals of the <tt class="function">saferepr()</tt> implementation. |
| 112 | |
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| 115 | <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-774' xml:id='l2h-774' class="method">format</tt></b>(</nobr></td> |
| 116 | <td><var>object, context, maxlevels, level</var>)</td></tr></table></dt> |
| 117 | <dd> |
| 118 | Returns three values: the formatted version of <var>object</var> as a |
| 119 | string, a flag indicating whether the result is readable, and a flag |
| 120 | indicating whether recursion was detected. The first argument is the |
| 121 | object to be presented. The second is a dictionary which contains the |
| 122 | <tt class="function">id()</tt> of objects that are part of the current presentation |
| 123 | context (direct and indirect containers for <var>object</var> that are |
| 124 | affecting the presentation) as the keys; if an object needs to be |
| 125 | presented which is already represented in <var>context</var>, the third |
| 126 | return value should be true. Recursive calls to the <tt class="method">format()</tt> |
| 127 | method should add additional entries for containers to this |
| 128 | dictionary. The fourth argument, <var>maxlevels</var>, gives the requested |
| 129 | limit to recursion; this will be <code>0</code> if there is no requested |
| 130 | limit. This argument should be passed unmodified to recursive calls. |
| 131 | The fourth argument, <var>level</var> gives the current level; recursive |
| 132 | calls should be passed a value less than that of the current call. |
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