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Produces human readable output of data structures.
In [1]: import pprint
In [2]: tel = {'jack': 4098, 'sape': 4139}
In [3]: pprint.pprint( tel)
{'jack': 4098, 'sape': 4139}
In [4]: pprint.pprint( tel, indent=5, width=20)
{ 'jack': 4098,
'sape': 4139}
Using the constructor:
In [1]: import pprint
In [2]: tel = {'jack': 4098, 'sape': 4139}
In [3]: pp = pprint.PrettyPrinter( indent=3, width=20)
In [4]: pp.pprint( tel)
{ 'jack': 4098,
'sape': 4139}