nested-lookup 0.1.2

lookup a key in a deeply nested document of dicts and lists

A small Python library which enables key lookups on deeply nested documents.

Documents may be built out of dictionaries (dicts) and/or lists.

Make working with JSON, YAML, and XML document responses fun again!

Contents

• install

• tutorial

• misc

install

install from pypi using pip:

pip install nested-lookup

or easy_install:

easy_install nested-lookup

or install from source using:

git clone https://github.com/russellballestrini/nested-lookup.git
cd nested-lookup
pip install .

tutorial

>>> from nested_lookup import nested_lookup

>>> document = [ { 'taco' : 42 } , { 'salsa' : [ { 'burrito' : { 'taco' : 69 } } ] } ]

>>> print(nested_lookup('taco', document))
[42, 69]

misc

license:

• Public Domain

authors:

• Russell Ballestrini

• Douglas Miranda

web:

• http://russell.ballestrini.net

• http://douglasmiranda.com

• https://gist.github.com/douglasmiranda/5127251