From 63f4dd5e8f7a2790c0a8174e2a9610fee717c662 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: R David Murray Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 09:51:58 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] whatsnew: pprint's compact option. --- Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst index 78fa24b4f28..7340dba21ce 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst @@ -1043,11 +1043,15 @@ Catucci in :issue:`4473`.) pprint ------ -The :mod:`pprint` module now supports *compact* mode for formatting long -sequences (:issue:`19132`). +The :mod:`pprint` module's :class:`~pprint.PrettyPrinter` class and its +:func:`~pprint.pformat`, and :func:`~pprint.pprint` functions have a new +option, *compact*, that controls how the output is formatted. Currently +setting *compact* to ``True`` means that sequences will be printed with as many +sequence elements as will fit within *width* on each (indented) line. +(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`19132`.) Long strings are now wrapped using Python's normal line continuation -syntax (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`17150`.) +syntax. (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`17150`). pty