Example from the pprint

pprint.py

import pprint
class MyPrettyPrinter(pprint.PrettyPrinter):
    def format(self, object, context, maxlevels, level):
        if isinstance(object, unicode):
            return (object.encode('utf8'), True, False)
        return pprint.PrettyPrinter.format(self, object, context, maxlevels, level)
pp = MyPrettyPrinter()

data = { 'name': 'John Doe', 'age': 30, 'city': 'New York' }

pp.pprint(data)

# Output:
# {'age': 30,
#  'city': 'New York',
#  'name': 'John Doe'}