What is the equivalent of php's print_r() in python?
The python print statement does a good job of formatting multidimesion arrays without requiring the print_r available in php.
As the definition for print states that each object is converted to a string, and as simple arrays print a '[' followed by a comma separated list of object values followed by a ']', this will work for any depth and shape of arrays.
For example
>>> x = [[1,2,3],[4,5,6]]>>> print x[[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]]If you need more advanced formatting than this, AJs answer suggesting pprint is probably the way to go.
You were looking for the repr bult-in function.
http://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#func-repr
print repr(variable)In Python 3, print is no longer a statement, so that would be:
print( repr(variable) )