gh-115986 Improve pprint documentation accuracy (#117403)

Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra <jelle.zijlstra@gmail.com>

diff --git a/Doc/library/pprint.rst b/Doc/library/pprint.rst
index eebd270a096ba5f569c360700017b55715da12ac..6dfea25d755f7581b211ad757bea177338b9cc39 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/pprint.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/pprint.rst
@@ -19,9 +19,8 @@ such as files, sockets or classes are included, as well as many other
 objects which are not representable as Python literals.
 
 The formatted representation keeps objects on a single line if it can, and
-breaks them onto multiple lines if they don't fit within the allowed width.
-Construct :class:`PrettyPrinter` objects explicitly if you need to adjust the
-width constraint.
+breaks them onto multiple lines if they don't fit within the allowed width,
+adjustable by the *width* parameter defaulting to 80 characters.
 
 Dictionaries are sorted by key before the display is computed.