Re: Why does not pprint work?

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On 07/22/2014 02:42 PM, fl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I read web tutorial at:
>
> http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201308/names_and_values_making_a_game_board.html
>
> I enter the example lines of that website:
>
>
> import pprint
> board = [ [0]*8 ] * 8
> pprint(board)
>
>

pprint is a module name -- you need to invoke the pprint function from 
within the pprint module:

pprint.pprint(board)

or alternately,

from pprint import pprint

pprint(board)


or, as I sometime do

from pprint import pprint as pp

pp(board)



Emile

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Why does not pprint work? fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com> - 2014-07-22 14:42 -0700
  Re: Why does not pprint work? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-23 07:49 +1000
  Re: Why does not pprint work? emile <emile@fenx.com> - 2014-07-22 14:51 -0700
    Re: Why does not pprint work? fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com> - 2014-07-22 15:05 -0700
      Re: Why does not pprint work? emile <emile@fenx.com> - 2014-07-22 15:17 -0700
      Re: Why does not pprint work? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-23 08:19 +1000
      Re: Why does not pprint work? Chris Kaynor <ckaynor@zindagigames.com> - 2014-07-22 15:22 -0700
  Re: Why does not pprint work? Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-07-22 22:26 -0400
  Re: Why does not pprint work? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-23 15:05 +1000
  Re: Why does not pprint work? robkotenko@gmail.com - 2014-08-03 14:34 -0700
    Re: Why does not pprint work? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-08-03 23:49 +0100

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