I can't believe it took me years to figure this out, but you can very easily set
the
pprint.pprint
function as the default implementation to use when calling print() during the
invocation of a shell or when running a program under the python interpreter.
The trick involves overriding the default for
sys.displayhook
and pointing it to pprint.pprint:
import sys
import pprint
sys.displayhook = pprint.pprint
Once displayhook is set, any invocation of print() within the same
interpreter context will defer the output formatting to pprint.pprint.
If you'd like to have that as your default without having to override
sys.displayhook in all your scripts and applications, you can create a
sitecustomize.py
or
usercustomize.py
module somewhere on your $PYTHONPATH that will be picked up when the python
interpreter start up.