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Colorful pprint #160466
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Feature or enhancement
What's better than a pretty print? A colorful pretty print!
By extracting the syntax highlighting code from the REPL, we can get the same colorization for literals in the pprint module.
I had Codex make me an example, and it works pretty nicely:
This will likely conflict with the PEP 813 reference implementation, so I'm going to keep the PR as a draft for now.
Has this already been discussed elsewhere?
This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere
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StanFromIreland commentedon Oct 23, 2026
This is a duplicate of #145217, no?
hugovk commentedon Oct 23, 2026
Yes, I think the issue is a duplicate, but my PR has stalled so I welcome a new attempt!
Do have a read through the comments on my PR and check the blockers are addressed or not relevant in your approach (I've not looked yet).
ZeroIntensity commentedon Oct 23, 2026
Ah, I thought the idea sounded familiar! I'll take a look at your PR.
warsaw commentedon Oct 24, 2026
Let's think about this in relation to the PEP 813 work.
ZeroIntensity commentedon Oct 24, 2026
Yeah, I don't plan on marking the PR as non-draft until a decision is made on PEP 813.