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"""
    salt.serializers.python
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    .. versionadded:: 2016.3.0

    Implements a Python serializer (via pprint.format)
"""

import pprint

import salt.utils.json

try:
    import simplejson as _json
except ImportError:
    import json as _json  # pylint: disable=blacklisted-import


__all__ = ["serialize", "available"]

available = True


def serialize(obj, **options):
    """
    Serialize Python data to a Python string representation (via pprint.format)

    :param obj: the data structure to serialize
    :param options: options given to pprint.format
    """

    # round-trip this through JSON to avoid OrderedDict types
    # there's probably a more performant way to do this...
    # TODO remove json round-trip when all dataset will use
    # serializers
    return pprint.pformat(
        salt.utils.json.loads(
            salt.utils.json.dumps(obj, _json_module=_json), _json_module=_json
        ),
        **options
    )