prettyfmt

prettyfmt is a tiny library to make your outputs, logs, and __str__() representations slightly more beautiful.

It offers simple but general functions for formatting and abbreviating objects and dataclasses, dicts, words and phrases, filenames, titles, long strings, timestamps, ages, and sizes.

It won't bloat your project. It's <500 lines of code with just two dependencies: humanize and strif.

Installation

# Use pip
pip install prettyfmt
# Or poetry
poetry add prettyfmt

Usage

See pydoc for details on all functions.

from prettyfmt import *

# Simple abbreviations of objects:
abbrev_obj({"a": "very " * 100 + "long", "b": 23})
🢂 "{a='very very very very very very very very very very very very ver…', b=23}"

abbrev_obj(["word " * i for i in range(10)], field_max_len=10, list_max_len=4)
🢂 "['', 'word ', 'word word ', 'word word…', …]"

# Abbreviate by character length.
abbrev_str("very " * 100 + "long", 32)
🢂 'very very very very very very v…'

# Abbreviate by character length but don't break words.
abbrev_on_words("very " * 100 + "long", 30)
🢂 'very very very very very very…'

# My favorite, abbreviate but don't break words and keep a few words
# on the end since they might be useful.
abbrev_phrase_in_middle("very " * 100 + "long", 40)
🢂 'very very very very … very very very long'

# This makes it very handy for cleaning up document titles.
ugly_title = "A  Very\tVery Very Needlessly Long  {Strange} Document Title [final edited draft23]"
🢂 sanitize_title(ugly_title)
'A Very Very Very Needlessly Long Strange Document Title final edited draft23'
abbrev_phrase_in_middle(sanitize_title(ugly_title))
🢂 'A Very Very Very Needlessly Long Strange … final edited draft23'

# Then you can slugify to get nice filenames or URLs.
from slugify import slugify
slugify(abbrev_phrase_in_middle(sanitize_title(ugly_title)))
🢂 'a-very-very-very-needlessly-long-strange-final-edited-draft23'

# Ages in seconds or deltas.
# Note we use a sensible single numeral to keep things brief, e.g.
# "33 days ago" and not the messier "1 month and 3 days ago".
# This is important in file listings, etc, where we want to optimize
# for space and legibility.
fmt_age(60 * 60 * 24 * 33)
🢂 '33 days ago'

fmt_age(60 * 60 * 24 * 33, brief=True)
🢂 '33d ago'

# Sizes
fmt_size_human(12000000)
🢂 '11.4M'

fmt_size_dual(12000000)
🢂 '11.4M (12000000 bytes)'

# Helpful making __str__() methods or printing output:
fmt_words("Hello", None, "", "world!")
🢂 'Hello world!'

fmt_paras(fmt_words("Hello", "world!"), "", "Goodbye.")
🢂 'Hello world!\n\nGoodbye.'

# Example of `abbrev_obj` to customize __str__().
# Allows sorting and truncating based on key and value.
@dataclass
class MyThing:
   file_path: Path
   title: str
   url: str
   body: str

   def __str__(self) -> str:
      return abbrev_obj(
            self,
            # Put an abbreviated title first, then the file path, then the url.
            # The `body` field will be omitted.
            key_filter={
               "title": 64,
               "file_path": 0,
               "url": 128,
            },
      )

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