In reply to Espinosa’s comment, here is a solution when “the original xml is not already (partially) indented or contain new lines“. Background Excerpt from the article (see References below) inspiring this solution: Based on the DOM specification, whitespaces outside the tags are perfectly valid and they are properly preserved. To remove them, we can … Read more
It has to do with how lxml treats whitespace — see the lxml FAQ for details. To fix this, change the loading part of the file to the following: parser = etree.XMLParser(remove_blank_text=True) root = etree.parse(‘file.xml’, parser).getroot() I didn’t test it, but it should indent your file just fine with this change.
Standard Python string formatting may suffice. # assume that your data rows are tuples template = “{0:8}|{1:10}|{2:15}|{3:7}|{4:10}” # column widths: 8, 10, 15, 7, 10 print template.format(“CLASSID”, “DEPT”, “COURSE NUMBER”, “AREA”, “TITLE”) # header for rec in your_data_source: print template.format(*rec) Or # assume that your data rows are dicts template = “{CLASSID:8}|{DEPT:10}|{C_NUM:15}|{AREA:7}|{TITLE:10}” # same, but … Read more
Python 3.8 or newer: Use sort_dicts=False: pprint.pprint(data, sort_dicts=False) Python 3.7 or older: You can monkey patch the pprint module. import pprint pprint.pprint({“def”:2,”ghi”:3,”abc”:1,}) pprint._sorted = lambda x:x # Or, for Python 3.7: # pprint.sorted = lambda x, key=None: x pprint.pprint({“def”:2,”ghi”:3, “abc”:1}) Since the 2nd output is essentiallly randomly sorted, your output may be different from mine: … Read more
I ended up using BeautifulSoup directly. That is something lxml.html.soupparser uses for parsing HTML. BeautifulSoup has a prettify method that does exactly what it says it does. It prettifies the HTML with proper indents and everything. BeautifulSoup will NOT fix the HTML, so broken code, remains broken. But in this case, since the code is … Read more
MarshalIndent will allow you to output your JSON with indentation and spacing. For example: { “data”: 1234 } The indent argument specifies the series of characters to indent with. Thus, json.MarshalIndent(data, “”, ” “) will pretty-print using four spaces for indentation.
JSON.stringify takes more optional arguments. Try: JSON.stringify({a:1,b:2,c:{d:1,e:[1,2]}}, null, 4); // Indented 4 spaces JSON.stringify({a:1,b:2,c:{d:1,e:[1,2]}}, null, “\t”); // Indented with tab From: How can I beautify JSON programmatically? It should work in modern browsers, and it is included in json2.js if you need a fallback for browsers that don’t support the JSON helper functions. For display … Read more
This is what I use to print my arrays: <pre> <?php print_r($your_array); ?> </pre> The magic comes with the pre tag.
The trick is to pass a string as the indent and to treat the last child specially: class Node { public void PrintPretty(string indent, bool last) { Console.Write(indent); if (last) { Console.Write(“\\-“); indent += ” “; } else { Console.Write(“|-“); indent += “| “; } Console.WriteLine(Name); for (int i = 0; i < Children.Count; i++) … Read more
JSON.stringify takes more optional arguments. Try: JSON.stringify({a:1,b:2,c:{d:1,e:[1,2]}}, null, 4); // Indented 4 spaces JSON.stringify({a:1,b:2,c:{d:1,e:[1,2]}}, null, “\t”); // Indented with tab From: How can I beautify JSON programmatically? Should work in modern browsers, and it is included in json2.js if you need a fallback for browsers that don’t support the JSON helper functions. For display purposes, … Read more