This outputter simply displays the output as a python data structure, by printing a string representation of it. It is similar to the pprint outputter, only the data is not nicely formatted/indented.
This was the original outputter used by Salt before the outputter system was developed.
Example output:
{'myminion': {'foo': {'list': ['Hello', 'World'], 'bar': 'baz', 'dictionary': {'abc': 123, 'def': 456}}}}
Rather basic....
Docs for previous releases are available on readthedocs.org.
Latest Salt release: 2014.7.2
22.18.11. salt.output.progress