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Subject: Re: Why does not pprint work?
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 22:26:55 -0400
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On 7/22/14 5:49 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 7:42 AM, fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I enter the example lines of that website:
>>
>>
>> import pprint
>> board = [ [0]*8 ] * 8
>> pprint(board)
>
> Flaw in the blog post: he didn't actually specify the import line.
> What you actually want is this:
>
> from pprint import pprint
>
> Or use pprint.pprint(board), but you probably don't need anything else
> from the module.
>
> Ned, if you're reading this: Adding the import would make the post clearer. :)

Done.

>
> ChrisA
>


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