# 2011-07-08  A perl Data.Dumper clone for Python

Perl中的Data::Dumper很好用，可以非常方便的将任意数据类型dump成可读的形式，debug的时候用来查看运行期的某种复杂数据结构非常的方便。

下面的这段代码是一个用于Python的近似实现，包含部分格式化的选项。几年前写的这段代码，其实还有不少改进的空间。


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