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Expected: pprint the object
Observed: crash with:
set([Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "./test.py", line 7, in <module>
 pp.pprint(myset)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/pprint.py", line 117, in pprint
 self._format(object, self._stream, 0, 0, {}, 0)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/pprint.py", line 194, in _format
 object = _sorted(object)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/pprint.py", line 82, in _sorted
 return sorted(iterable)
TypeError: can only compare to a set
Steps to repro:
#!/usr/bin/python
import pprint
pp = pprint.PrettyPrinter(indent=4)
myset = set(xrange(3))
myset.add(frozenset(xrange(10)))
pp.pprint(myset)

FYI, 'crash' is for when the CPython interpreter segfaults, not when python produces a traceback.
Sets and frozensets are not comparable to anything except themselves, unlike most other Python2 datatypes. In Python3, most disparate types are not comparable, including sets and frozensets.
To fix this issue in 2.7's pprint I think we would have to backport the fix from issue 3976.

For now sets and frozensets are comparable with other types in Python 2.
>>> frozenset(xrange(10)) < 1
False
>>> set(xrange(10)) < 1
False
The only known to me uncomparable types in Python 2 are naive and aware datetime.

Here is reproducible on 2.7 example:
>>> import pprint, datetime, test.test_datetime
>>> naive = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
>>> aware = datetime.datetime.utcnow().replace(tzinfo=test.test_datetime.FixedOffset(-300, "EST", 1))
>>> pprint.pprint({naive, aware})
set([Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
 File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython2.7/Lib/pprint.py", line 59, in pprint
 printer.pprint(object)
 File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython2.7/Lib/pprint.py", line 117, in pprint
 self._format(object, self._stream, 0, 0, {}, 0)
 File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython2.7/Lib/pprint.py", line 199, in _format
 object = _sorted(object)
 File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython2.7/Lib/pprint.py", line 82, in _sorted
 return sorted(iterable)
TypeError: can't compare offset-naive and offset-aware datetimes
>>> pprint.pprint({naive: 'naive', aware: 'aware'})
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
 File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython2.7/Lib/pprint.py", line 59, in pprint
 printer.pprint(object)
 File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython2.7/Lib/pprint.py", line 117, in pprint
 self._format(object, self._stream, 0, 0, {}, 0)
 File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython2.7/Lib/pprint.py", line 140, in _format
 rep = self._repr(object, context, level - 1)
 File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython2.7/Lib/pprint.py", line 226, in _repr
 self._depth, level)
 File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython2.7/Lib/pprint.py", line 238, in format
 return _safe_repr(object, context, maxlevels, level)
 File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython2.7/Lib/pprint.py", line 280, in _safe_repr
 for k, v in _sorted(object.items()):
 File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython2.7/Lib/pprint.py", line 82, in _sorted
 return sorted(iterable)
TypeError: can't compare offset-naive and offset-aware datetimes

Python 2.7 is no longer supported.