How to pretty print nested dictionaries?
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00:00 How To Pretty Print Nested Dictionaries?
00:30 Accepted Answer Score 227
00:46 Answer 2 Score 886
01:04 Answer 3 Score 117
01:29 Answer 4 Score 96
01:43 Thank you
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ANSWER 1
Score 886
My first thought was that the JSON serializer is probably pretty good at nested dictionaries, so I'd cheat and use that:
>>> import json
>>> print(json.dumps({'a':2, 'b':{'x':3, 'y':{'t1': 4, 't2':5}}},
... sort_keys=True, indent=4))
{
"a": 2,
"b": {
"x": 3,
"y": {
"t1": 4,
"t2": 5
}
}
}
ACCEPTED ANSWER
Score 227
I'm not sure how exactly you want the formatting to look like, but you could start with a function like this:
def pretty(d, indent=0):
for key, value in d.items():
print('\t' * indent + str(key))
if isinstance(value, dict):
pretty(value, indent+1)
else:
print('\t' * (indent+1) + str(value))
ANSWER 3
Score 117
You could try YAML via PyYAML. Its output can be fine-tuned. I'd suggest starting with the following:
print(yaml.dump(data, allow_unicode=True, default_flow_style=False))
The result is very readable; it can be also parsed back to Python if needed.
Edit:
Example:
>>> import yaml
>>> data = {'a':2, 'b':{'x':3, 'y':{'t1': 4, 't2':5}}}
>>> print(yaml.dump(data, default_flow_style=False))
a: 2
b:
x: 3
y:
t1: 4
t2: 5
ANSWER 4
Score 96
By this way you can print it in pretty way for example your dictionary name is yasin
import json
print (json.dumps(yasin, indent=2))
or, safer:
print (json.dumps(yasin, indent=2, default=str))