Formats DynamoDB API responses so that they're easy to read on screen.

cloud_academy.py

from decimal import Decimal
from pprint import pprint as _pprint


def cleanup(val):
    if isinstance(val, list):
        return [cleanup(elem) for elem in val]
    elif isinstance(val, dict):
        return dict([(cleanup(k), cleanup(v)) for (k, v) in val.iteritems()])
    elif isinstance(val, unicode):
        return str(val)
    elif isinstance(val, Decimal):
        if float(val) % 1.0 == 0.0:
            return int(val)
        else:
            return float(val)
    else:
        return val


def pprint(val):
    _pprint(cleanup(val))