Add colour to `pprint` output
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Description
Feature or enhancement
Proposal:
We can use the existing syntax theme to add colour to the output of:
pprint.pp(data)pprint.pprint(data)pprint.PrettyPrinter().pprint(data)
As usual, this will respect the environment variables to control colour and the output stream's capabilities.
Has this already been discussed elsewhere?
This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere
Links to previous discussion of this feature:
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Linked PRs
- gh-145218
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the syntax theme implementation in Lib/_colorize.py at the referenced lines, then inspect the linked PR gh-145218 for the current implementation context. Check how pprint.pp, pprint.pprint, and PrettyPrinter().pprint produce output, and confirm that the completed behavior respects environment variables and output-stream capabilities.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100