Any way to properly pretty-print OrderedDict?

Ever since Python 3.7, Python guarantees that keys in a dictionary will retain their insertion order. (They still don’t behave exactly the same as OrderedDict objects, though, as two dicts a and b can be considered equal a == b even if the order of the keys is different, whereas OrderedDict does check this upon testing for equality.)

Python 3.8 or newer:

You can use sort_dicts=False to prevent it from sorting them alphabetically:

>>> example_dict = {'x': 1, 'b': 2, 'm': 3}
>>> import pprint
>>> pprint.pprint(example_dict, sort_dicts=False)
{'x': 1, 'b': 2, 'm': 3}

Python 3.7 or older:

As a temporary workaround, you can try dumping in JSON format instead of using pprint.

You lose some type information, but it looks nice and keeps the order.

>>> import json
>>> print(json.dumps(example_dict, indent=4))
{
    "x": 1,
    "b": 2,
    "m": 3
}