title: How to print in the same format as the python console
body: <p>I am working with 3D arrays, for example, in an IPython console:</p>
  
  <pre><code>In [8]: xx = [[[0 for i in range(4)] for j in range(4)] for k in range(4)]
  
  xx
  Out[9]: 
  [[[0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0]],
   [[0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0]],
   [[0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0]],
   [[0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0]]]
  
  print(xx)
  [[[0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0]], [[0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0]], [[0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0]], [[0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0]]]
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  <p>When I just evaluate the array in the console it is nicely formatted, but when I print() it, it formats in one long line which then wraps and looks horrible. There are long-winded ways to reproduce the terminal-style formatting from within a program, but is it possible to just call the function that formats for the console directly? I tried </p>
  
  <pre><code>repr(xx)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But that does not have the desired effect. Such a function could be generally useful, not just for arrays.</p>