For a simple string input, pprint would be expected to return an output similar to print. However, the functionality differs

### Code:
import time
from pprint import pprint

start = time.time()
time.sleep(0.5)
object_made = time.time()
time.sleep(0.5)
done = time.time()
time.sleep(0.5)
shown = time.time()

pprint(
    f"Time to create object: {object_made - start}s\n" +
    f"Time to insert 100000 rows: {done - object_made}s\n" +
    f"Time to retrieve 100000 rows: {shown - done}s\n"
)

### Output Received:
('Time to create object: 0.5010814666748047s\n'
 'Time to insert 100000 rows: 0.5010972023010254s\n'
 'Time to retrieve 100000 rows: 0.501101016998291s\n')

### Expected Output:
Time to create object: 0.5010814666748047s
Time to insert 100000 rows: 0.5010972023010254s
Time to retrieve 100000 rows: 0.501101016998291s

if pprint is called without parameters, it returns a TypeError

>>> pprint()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: pprint() missing 1 required positional argument: 'object'

it would be beneficial however to return an empty string or a new line character instead. An erroneous call would generate an unnecessary run-time error in a huge script

pprint.pprint is not designed to be a drop-in replacement for print. At this point, we cannot break existing code to change how pprint works.

I suggest you make a pprint.pprint wrapper that does what you want, or maybe subclass pprint.PrettyPrinter.

Eric nailed it; pprint was not designed as a replacement for print, and was never intended to serve that purpose.

Rejecting as out of scope.

stage: resolved