pprint not handline uncomparable dictionary keys, set members well

[AndreasKostyrka]

BPO	22718
Nosy	@rhettinger, @bitdancer

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title = 'pprint not handline uncomparable dictionary keys, set members well'
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[AndreasKostyrka]

>> import datetime, pprint
>> pprint.pformat({datetime.datetime.now(): 1, None: 1})

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/pprint.py", line 63, in pformat
    return PrettyPrinter(indent=indent, width=width, depth=depth).pformat(object)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/pprint.py", line 122, in pformat
    self._format(object, sio, 0, 0, {}, 0)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/pprint.py", line 140, in _format
    rep = self._repr(object, context, level - 1)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/pprint.py", line 226, in _repr
    self._depth, level)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/pprint.py", line 238, in format
    return _safe_repr(object, context, maxlevels, level)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/pprint.py", line 280, in _safe_repr
    for k, v in _sorted(object.items()):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/pprint.py", line 82, in _sorted
    return sorted(iterable)
TypeError: can't compare datetime.datetime to NoneType

This is issue is kind of related to http://bugs.python.org/issue14998
but that talks only python 3.2+

[AndreasKostyrka]

This also applies to sets.

[bitdancer]

Actually, it applies to datetime, which is is almost unique among python2 datatypes in not being comparable to other types by default. I'm not sure this is worth fixing in 2.7.

[rhettinger]

Complex numbers also aren't sortable.

I'm not sure this is worth fixing in 2.7.

I agree. That ship sailed a long time ago.