Or is there a better way to quickly output the contents of an array (multidimensional or what not).  Thanks.
print and pprint are great for built-in data types or classes which define a sane object representation. If you want a full dump of arbitrary objects, you'll have to roll your own. That is not that hard: simply create a recursive function with the base case being any non-container built-in data type, and the recursive case applying the function to each item of a container or each attribute of the object, which can be gotten using dir() or the inspect module.
What is the equivalent of php's print_r() in python?