Enable pretty printing by default in IPython

Question

How do I enable pretty printing by default in IPython? I haven't been able to find clear instructions anywhere on how to do this. Thanks much!

Promisee

It's enabled by default in ubuntu. What are you using? – Clyburn

This forum thread had the same issue as you. I would check it out! – Sinuosity

Do you just want the Out [123]: lines in IPython to do the equivalent of pprint.pprint(_) instead of print(repr(_)), or do you want to hook every call to print to pprint.pprint instead, or something like that? – Tsarism

Or… if you just want %pprint enabled by default, that's just a config setting—and it's already enabled by default, unless you changed something. (At least if you pip install ipython, or install the RPM/DEB/port/etc. on any system I've used, it's enabled by default; it's always possible that some platform/distro does things differently.) – Tsarism

Answer 1

$ ipython help notebook | grep pprint -A1
--pprint
    Enable auto pretty printing of results.
--
--no-pprint
    Disable auto auto pretty printing of results.


$ ipython help console | grep pprint -A1
--pprint
    Enable auto pretty printing of results.
--
--no-pprint
    Disable auto auto pretty printing of results.

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