Feature or enhancement

Make pprint.pprint() use the terminal width if available.

Pitch

Currently pprint.pprint() and other methods have a default width argument of 80. If you use are debugging on a terminal wider than that then your output is often needlessly split across lines.

You can of course remember to pass width=some_bigger_number each time, but then if you're shifting your terminal size as you're debugging then you need to keep adjusting it. It's a bit annoying.

Let's just use the terminal width, if available, and fall back to the current default of 80 if not?

Previous discussion

https://discuss.python.org/t/the-pprint-module-should-use-the-terminal-width-where-available/27658

Linked PRs

• gh-74182: Use the terminal width as a default when pretty printing #105631