pprint
appears to use repr
by default, you can work around this by overriding PrettyPrinter.format
:
# coding=utf8
import pprint
class MyPrettyPrinter(pprint.PrettyPrinter):
def format(self, object, context, maxlevels, level):
if isinstance(object, unicode):
return (object.encode('utf8'), True, False)
return pprint.PrettyPrinter.format(self, object, context, maxlevels, level)
d = {'foo': u'işüğçö'}
pprint.pprint(d) # {'foo': u'i\u015f\xfc\u011f\xe7\xf6'}
MyPrettyPrinter().pprint(d) # {'foo': işüğçö}