Indentation and Wrapping

Indentation is a common way to display data hierarchically. say will help you manage it. For example:

say('ITEMS')
for item in items:
    say(item, indent=1)

will indent the items by one indentation level (by default, each indent level is four spaces, but you can change that with the indent_str option).

If you want to change the default indentation level:

say.set(indent=1)      # to an absolute level
say.set(indent='+1')   # strings => set relative to current level

...

say.set(indent=0)      # to get back to the default, no indent

Or you can use a with construct:

with say.settings(indent='+1'):
    say(...)

    # anything say() emits here will be auto-indented +1 levels

# anything say() emits here, after the with, will not be indented +1

Note

If using a string to indicate relative indent levels offends your sense of dimensionality or strict typing, there is a class Relative that does the same thing in a more formal way. indent='+2' and indent=Relative(+2) are identical.

If you have a lot of data or text to print, and it would normally create super-long, difficult-to-read lines, you can easily wrap it:

say("This is a really long...blah blah blah", wrap=40)

Will automatically wrap the text to the given width using Python’s standard textwrap module. Feel free to use indentation and wrapping together.