deepops 1.6.2

Python deepops module

PYTHON DEEPOPS MODULE

This module contains some functions for performing "deep" operations on standard Python "compound" data structures - lists/sets/dictionaries:

• deepmerge() - merges two compound structures, including all sub-items, e.g. items to lists and sets, missing keys/items to dictionaries, optionally replacing clashing simple types.
• deepremoveitems() - removes items (simple types, or whole compound structures) from within another compound data structure.
• deepdiff() - compares two compound structures and returns a tuple of items to be removed and items to be updated: these could be passed to deepremoveitems() and deepmerge(), respectively, to transform one into the other (although note that they would need to be deepcopy()ed first).

The module was developed and used under Python 3.4-3.7 but seems to work OK in basic testing under 2.7.

Author

Robert Franklin, UK [e-mail]