code: def ppjson(dumpit: Any, elide_to: int = None) -> str:
      
  
      if elide_to is not None:
          elide_to = max(elide_to, 3) # make room for ellipses '...'
      try:
          rv = json.dumps(json.loads(dumpit) if isinstance(dumpit, str) else dumpit, indent=4)
      except TypeError:
          rv = '{}'.format(pformat(dumpit, indent=4, width=120))
      return rv if elide_to is None or len(rv) <= elide_to else '{}...'.format(rv[0 : elide_to - 3])
docs: JSON pretty printer, whether already json-encoded or not
  
      :param dumpit: object to pretty-print
      :param elide_to: optional maximum length including ellipses ('...')
      :return: json pretty-print