Improve --debug output formatting

httpie/client.py

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ from httpie import __version__, sessions
 from httpie.cli.constants import SSL_VERSION_ARG_MAPPING
 from httpie.cli.dicts import RequestHeadersDict
 from httpie.plugins import plugin_manager
-from httpie.utils import repr_dict_nice
+from httpie.utils import repr_dict
 
 
 try:
@@ -122,8 +122,8 @@ def get_response(
 
 
 def dump_request(kwargs: dict):
-    sys.stderr.write('\n>>> requests.request(**%s)\n\n'
-                     % repr_dict_nice(kwargs))
+    sys.stderr.write(
+        f'\n>>> requests.request(**{repr_dict(kwargs)})\n\n')
 
 
 def finalize_headers(headers: RequestHeadersDict) -> RequestHeadersDict:

httpie/context.py

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ except ImportError:
 from httpie.compat import is_windows
 from httpie.config import DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR, Config
 
-from httpie.utils import repr_dict_nice
+from httpie.utils import repr_dict
 
 
 class Environment:
@@ -94,11 +94,11 @@ class Environment:
         actual = dict(defaults)
         actual.update(self.__dict__)
         actual['config'] = self.config
-        return repr_dict_nice(dict(
-            (key, value)
+        return repr_dict({
+            key: value
             for key, value in actual.items()
-            if not key.startswith('_'))
-        )
+            if not key.startswith('_')
+        })
 
     def __repr__(self):
         return f'<{type(self).__name__} {self}>'

httpie/utils.py

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ from __future__ import division
 import json
 import mimetypes
 from collections import OrderedDict
+from pprint import pformat
 
 import requests.auth
 
@@ -10,20 +11,8 @@ def load_json_preserve_order(s):
     return json.loads(s, object_pairs_hook=OrderedDict)
 
 
-def repr_dict_nice(d):
-    def prepare_dict(d):
-        for k, v in d.items():
-            if isinstance(v, dict):
-                v = dict(prepare_dict(v))
-            elif isinstance(v, bytes):
-                v = v.decode('utf8')
-            elif not isinstance(v, (int, str)):
-                v = repr(v)
-            yield k, v
-    return json.dumps(
-        dict(prepare_dict(d)),
-        indent=4, sort_keys=True,
-    )
+def repr_dict(d: dict) -> str:
+    return pformat(d)
 
 
 def humanize_bytes(n, precision=2):