JupyterLab Dictionary Content Output Format

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There isn’t a true line break in the JupyterLab display. Zoom out in your browser and you should see the output of print(people) on one line. In Chrome, Zoom out is under View.

The following in the notebook will get closer to listing each key per line but still fails with email key in your provided example:

display(people)

But if you need to control display in Jupyter there may be other ways to accomplish what you seek? For example you can add in a little lightweight python code to do better handle things as you want. For example the following will place ’ keys list completely on each keys line’ as long as your JupyterLab window isn’t too narrow:

from IPython.display import Markdown, display
def printmd(string):
    display(Markdown(string))
printmd(str(people).replace("],","],  \n"))

With that code in Jupyter, you’ll see as output:

{'first': ['Corey', 'Jane', 'John'],
'last': ['Shafer', 'Doe', 'Millard'],
'email': ['CoreyMSchafer@gmail.com', 'JaneDoe@email.com', 'JohnM81@hotmail.com']}

(I employ that printmd() function in other answers here and here. Relying on the output now being markdown, I added in some markdown syntax to the string representation of the dictionary to control displaying parts more.)

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