[TIP] dicts in doctests

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Sep 17, 2008, at 10:15 PM, Fred Drake wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org>  
> wrote:
>> Right, good point.  Be careful though because I think pprint's  
>> sorting is
>> broken in Python 2.4.
>
> With Python 2.4 and earlier, dicts for which the standard repr fit
> within the available space without being stacked did not get their
> keys sorted.  Stacked displays were sorted just fine.
>
> One approach would be to always use the width control to force the
> stacked display.  This works for all versions:
>
>>>> import pprint
>>>>
>>>> def display(ob):
>  ...     pprint.pprint(ob, width=1)

Ah, I didn't know that.  Thanks for the tip!
- -Barry

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