[Python] Pretty printing Python dictionary/lists in "Black style"

I don't really fancy the way Python's pprint formats the output. E.g.

import pprint
from datetime import datetime
d = {
'a': [
{
'123': datetime(2021, 11, 15, 0, 0),
'456': 'cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint...',
'567': [
1, 2, 'cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.'
]
}
],
'b': {
'x': 'yz'
}
}
pprint.pprint(d)


Will print:

{'a': [{'123': datetime.datetime(2021, 11, 15, 0, 0),
'456': 'cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint...',
'567': [1,
2,
'cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt '
'mollit anim id est laborum.']}],
'b': {'x': 'yz'}}


But I'd like it to be:

{
"a": [
{
"123": datetime.datetime(2021, 11, 15, 0, 0),
"456": "cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint...",
"567": [
1,
2,
"cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt "
"mollit anim id est laborum.",
],
}
],
"b": {"x": "yz"},
}


I.e. in the style of Black

Is there a parameter of pprint or some 3rd party library to do this? I guess I could use Black for some outputs but I wonder if there is an out-of-the-box solution

Edit: A good suggestion was to use print(json.dumps(d, indent=4)). This does the job if the whole thing is JSON-serializable but unfortunately does not work otherwise.

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