Commit 63b04486 authored by Ezio Melotti's avatar Ezio Melotti

#16589: fix pprint signatures in the doc (backport of 106ee4eb5970).

parent 4f3b5943
......@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ The :mod:`pprint` module defines one class:
.. First the implementation class:
.. class:: PrettyPrinter(...)
.. class:: PrettyPrinter(indent=1, width=80, depth=None, stream=None)
Construct a :class:`PrettyPrinter` instance. This constructor understands
several keyword parameters. An output stream may be set using the *stream*
......@@ -73,9 +73,7 @@ The :mod:`pprint` module defines one class:
The :class:`PrettyPrinter` class supports several derivative functions:
.. Now the derivative functions:
.. function:: pformat(object[, indent[, width[, depth]]])
.. function:: pformat(object, indent=1, width=80, depth=None)
Return the formatted representation of *object* as a string. *indent*, *width*
and *depth* will be passed to the :class:`PrettyPrinter` constructor as
......@@ -85,10 +83,10 @@ The :class:`PrettyPrinter` class supports several derivative functions:
The parameters *indent*, *width* and *depth* were added.
.. function:: pprint(object[, stream[, indent[, width[, depth]]]])
.. function:: pprint(object, stream=None, indent=1, width=80, depth=None)
Prints the formatted representation of *object* on *stream*, followed by a
newline. If *stream* is omitted, ``sys.stdout`` is used. This may be used in
newline. If *stream* is ``None``, ``sys.stdout`` is used. This may be used in
the interactive interpreter instead of a :keyword:`print` statement for
inspecting values. *indent*, *width* and *depth* will be passed to the
:class:`PrettyPrinter` constructor as formatting parameters.
......@@ -206,7 +204,8 @@ are converted to strings. The default implementation uses the internals of the
pprint Example
--------------
This example demonstrates several uses of the :func:`pprint` function and its parameters.
This example demonstrates several uses of the :func:`pprint` function and its
parameters.
>>> import pprint
>>> tup = ('spam', ('eggs', ('lumberjack', ('knights', ('ni', ('dead',
......
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