Please help. How to programmatically print interactive object to interactive console

[Detnator-Neo]

Hi. I've tried every other avenue I can find to get help with this, but in each case it seems I'm doing something wrong... I'd really appreciate some help, either here, or direction to where I should be asking instead.

My question is this:

Running a node.js script in VSCode if I have console.log(obj) in my code it prints the object in grey in an interactive fold-down-able form, in the interactive console.

Running a python script in VSCode if I have print(obj) in my code it prints (where obj is a list, dict, etc.) it prints it in the interactive console as a (potentially really long) string (the same as if I did console.log(JSON.stringify(obj)) in node.js).

If I pause the script at an appropriate point, and manually type obj in the interactive console then it prints it in the grey interactive fold-down-able form there. But I can't seem to find any function or command in my python code that will do this (like console.log(obj) does in node.js)

Is there any way to do this?

Thanks!

[brettcannon]

This is a duplicate of https://discord.com/channels/702724176489873509/702951042480078948/1012230642219614210 , so locking to centralize the conversation.