lxdx 0.5.0

Just an extended Python dict with attribute-accessibility, extra methods, and metadata

lxdx is an “extended” Python dict with attribute-like accessibility. Other than the usual dict operations, functions and methods, some useful functions are incorporated as well.

Only supports Python 3.9+, due to the usage of the union operator for dict.

Why this project?

• Hobbies and curiosities. Just for the fun of programming.

• dataclass is not cut for modelling hierarchical data.

• Brackets when accessing multi-layer data is too many. Dot notation may be a cleaner way.

• Introduce utility functions like get_from(path), inspired from JsonPath, for programmability.

• Ability to add metadata to the items.

Installation

lxdx is available in PyPI, and installable via pip:

pip install lxdx

Examples

from lxdx import Dixt

assert Dixt() == {}
assert Dixt({1: 1, 'alpha': 'α'}) == {1: 1, 'alpha': 'α'}
assert Dixt(alpha='α', beta='β') == {'alpha': 'α', 'beta': 'β'}
assert Dixt(alpha='α', beta='β').is_supermap_of({'beta': 'β'})

# data can be deeply nested
data = {'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip', 'metadata': {'Content-Type': 'application/json'}}
dx = Dixt(**data)

# update dx using the union operator
dx |= {'other': 'dict or Dixt obj'}

# 'Normalise' the keys to use it as attributes additionally.
assert dx['Accept-Encoding'] == dx.accept_encoding
del dx.accept_encoding
print(dx.metadata.CONTENT_TYPE)

# Instead of
dx['a-list'][1]['obj-attr'] = 'value'

# Is way cleaner
dx.a_list[1].obj_attr = 'value'

# Programmatically get values
assert dx.a_list[1].obj_attr == dx.get_from('$.a_list[1].obj_attr')

json_str = '{"a": "JSON string"}'
assert Dixt.from_json(json_str).json() == json_str

Documentation

Full documentation is at https://hardistones.github.io/lxdx.

Future

lxdx is supposed to be a library of “extended” list and dict. For now there’s no use case for the list extension.

To be supported

• User-defined meta specification.

License

This project and all its files are licensed under the 3-Clause BSD License.

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