lookup a key in a deeply nested document of dicts and lists
Project description
Make working with JSON, YAML, and XML document responses fun again!
The nested_lookup package provides many Python functions for working with deeply nested documents. A document in this case is a a mixture of Python dictionary and list objects typically derived from YAML or JSON.
- nested_lookup:
Perform a key lookup on a deeply nested document. Returns a list of matching values.
- nested_update:
Given a document, find all occurances of the given key set the given value. Returns a copy of the document.
- nested_delete:
Given a document, find all occurances of the given key and delete it. Returns a copy of the document.
- get_all_keys:
Fetch all keys from a deeply nested dictionary. Returns a list of keys.
- get_occurrence_of_key/get_occurrence_of_value:
Returns the number of occurrences of a key/value from a nested dictionary.
For example function invocations, plesae see the tutorial.
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 .
quick tutorial
>>> from nested_lookup import nested_lookup
>>> document = [ { 'taco' : 42 } , { 'salsa' : [ { 'burrito' : { 'taco' : 69 } } ] } ]
>>> print(nested_lookup('taco', document))
[42, 69]
>>> from nested_lookup import nested_update, nested_delete
>>> nested_update(document, key='burrito', value='Test')
[{'taco': 42}, {'salsa': [{'burrito': 'Test'}]}]
>>> nested_delete(document, 'taco')
[{}, {'salsa': [{'burrito': {}}]}]
>>> from nested_lookup import get_all_keys
>>> get_all_keys(document)
['taco', 'salsa', 'burrito', 'taco']
>>> from nested_lookup import get_occurrence_of_key, get_occurrence_of_value
>>> get_occurrence_of_key(document, key='taco')
2
>>> get_occurrence_of_value(document, value='42')
1longer tutorial
You may control the function’s behavior by passing some optional arguments.
- wild (defaults to False):
if wild is True, treat the given key as a case insensitive substring when performing lookups.
- with_keys (defaults to False):
if with_keys is True, return a dictionary of all matched keys and a list of values.
For example, given the following document:
from nested_lookup import nested_lookup
my_document = {
'name' : 'Russell Ballestrini',
'email_address' : 'test1@example.com',
'other' : {
'secondary_email' : 'test2@example.com',
'EMAIL_RECOVERY' : 'test3@example.com',
'email_address' : 'test4@example.com',
},
},Next, we could act wild and find all the email addresses like this:
results = nested_lookup(
key = 'mail',
document = my_document,
wild = True
)
print(results)['test1@example.com', 'test4@example.com', 'test2@example.com', 'test3@example.com']Additionally, if you also needed the matched key names, you could do this:
results = nested_lookup(
key = 'mail',
document = my_document,
wild = True,
with_keys = True,
)
print(results){
'email_address': ['test1@example.com', 'test4@example.com'],
'secondary_email': ['test2@example.com'],
'EMAIL_RECOVERY': ['test3@example.com']
}To Get / Delete / Update a key->value pair in nested document
from nested_lookup import nested_update, nested_delete
result = nested_delete(my_document, 'EMAIL_RECOVERY')
print(result) # result => {'other': {'secondary_email': 'test2@example.com', 'email_address': 'test4@example.com'}, 'email_address': 'test1@example.com', 'name': 'Russell Ballestrini'}
result = nested_update(my_document, key='other', value='Test')
print(result) # result => {'other': 'Test', 'email_address': 'test1@example.com', 'name': 'Russell Ballestrini'}To get a list of every nested key in a document, run this:
from nested_lookup import get_all_keys
keys = get_all_keys(my_document)
print(keys)['name', 'email_address', 'other', 'secondary_email', 'EMAIL_RECOVERY', 'email_address']To get the number of occurrence of the given key/value
from nested_lookup import get_occurrence_of_key, get_occurrence_of_value
no_of_key_occurrence = get_occurrence_of_key(my_document, key='email_address')
print(no_of_key_occurrence) # result => 2
no_of_value_occurrence = get_occurrence_of_value(my_document, value='test2@example.com')
print(no_of_value_occurrence) # result => 1misc
- license:
Public Domain
- authors:
Russell Ballestrini
Douglas Miranda
Ramesh RV
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