orderedattrdict 1.1.1

OrderedDict with attribute-style access

An ordered dictionary with attribute-style access.

Usage

AttrDict behaves exactly like collections.OrderedDict, but also allows keys to be accessed as attributes:

>>> from orderedattrdict import AttrDict
>>> conf = AttrDict()
>>> conf['z'] = 1
>>> assert conf.z == 1
>>> conf.y = 2
>>> assert conf['y'] == 2
>>> conf.x = 3
>>> assert conf.keys() == ['z', 'y', 'x']

NOTE: If the key clashes with an AttrDict attribute, the key is not used. This also applies if the key starts with __ (two underscores). For example:

>>> a = AttrDict(keys=1)
>>> a.keys
<bound method AttrDict.keys of AttrDict([('keys', 1)])>
>>> a['keys']
1

Load JSON preserving the order of keys:

>>> import json
>>> data = json.load(open('test.json'), object_pairs_hook=AttrDict)

Load YAML preserving the order of keys:

>>> import yaml
>>> from orderedattrdict.yamlutils import AttrDictYAMLLoader
>>> data = yaml.load(open('test.yaml'), Loader=AttrDictYAMLLoader)

Make PyYAML always load all dictionaries as AttrDict:

>>> from orderedattrdict.yamlutils import from_yaml
>>> yaml.add_constructor(u'tag:yaml.org,2002:map', from_yaml)
>>> yaml.add_constructor(u'tag:yaml.org,2002:omap', from_yaml)

json.dump, yaml.dump and yaml.safe_dump convert AttrDict into dictionaries, retaining the order:

>>> json.dumps(data)
>>> yaml.dump(data)

Installation

This is a pure-Python package is build for Python 2.7+ and Python 3.0+. Set it up using:

pip install orderedattdict