Pretty-print multi-type lists

pprint.py

# Pretty-print lists containing ints, strings, and unicode

delim = "\t"    # use tab as delimiter

def convert(x):
    'Coerce ints to strings, otherwise try to encode.'
    return str(x) if type(x) is int else x.encode('utf-8', 'ignore')

def pprint(args):
    'Pretty-print list of args.'
    try:
        print delim.join(str(i) for i in args)
    except UnicodeEncodeError:
        print delim.join(convert(i) for i in args)

mixed = [1, 'A', u'\xe9']

pprint(mixed)