Pretty printing dicts with compact=True

Nicolas Hug niourf at gmail.com
Tue Sep 11 07:58:48 EDT 2018

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Is there a reason why the 'compact' parameter is ignored when pretty 
printing a dict? For example:
pprint({x: x for x in range(15)}, compact=True)
would be be printed in 15 lines while it could fit on 2.
Is this a bug or was this decided on purpose?
Thank you!

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