Style

PEP-8⚑

PEP-8 is a style guide for Python code.

Indentation⚑

Use 4 spaces as the TAB length as stated by pep-8-

Long strings⚑

Implicit concatenation might be the cleanest solution:

s = "this is my really, really, really, really, really, really," \
    " really long string that I'd like to shorten."

Packages⚑

pprint⚑

pprint is a Python module provides a capability to “pretty-print” arbitrary Python data structures in a form which can be used as input to the interpreter.

import pprint

things = [a,b,c]

pprint.pprint(things)

The documentation can be found here.