Programmatic formatting solution: The JSON.stringify method supported by many modern browsers (including IE8) can output a beautified JSON string: JSON.stringify(jsObj, null, “\t”); // stringify with tabs inserted at each level JSON.stringify(jsObj, null, 4); // stringify with 4 spaces at each level Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/AndyE/HZPVL/ This method is also included with json2.js, for supporting older browsers. Manual … Read more
Eclipse 3.6 allows you to turn off formatting by placing a special comment, like // @formatter:off … // @formatter:on The on/off features have to be turned “on” in Eclipse preferences: Java > Code Style > Formatter. Click on Edit, Off/On Tags, enable Enable Off/On tags. It’s also possible to change the magic strings in the … Read more
Me, I’d do (‘%f’ % x).rstrip(‘0’).rstrip(‘.’) — guarantees fixed-point formatting rather than scientific notation, etc etc. Yeah, not as slick and elegant as %g, but, it works (and I don’t know how to force %g to never use scientific notation;-).
You want vars() mixed with pprint(): from pprint import pprint pprint(vars(your_object))
PHP 5.4 offers the JSON_PRETTY_PRINT option for use with the json_encode() call. http://php.net/manual/en/function.json-encode.php <?php … $json_string = json_encode($data, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);
How to pretty print XML from Java?
How can I print a list of elements separated by commas?
The json module already implements some basic pretty printing in the dump and dumps functions, with the indent parameter that specifies how many spaces to indent by: >>> import json >>> >>> your_json = ‘[“foo”, {“bar”:[“baz”, null, 1.0, 2]}]’ >>> parsed = json.loads(your_json) >>> print(json.dumps(parsed, indent=4, sort_keys=True)) [ “foo”, { “bar”: [ “baz”, null, 1.0, … Read more
import xml.dom.minidom dom = xml.dom.minidom.parse(xml_fname) # or xml.dom.minidom.parseString(xml_string) pretty_xml_as_string = dom.toprettyxml()
Pretty-printing is implemented natively in JSON.stringify(). The third argument enables pretty printing and sets the spacing to use: var str = JSON.stringify(obj, null, 2); // spacing level = 2 If you need syntax highlighting, you might use some regex magic like so: function syntaxHighlight(json) { if (typeof json != ‘string’) { json = JSON.stringify(json, undefined, … Read more