Installation

Install only typetree (no external dependency):

pip install typetree

Include pyperclip for better clipboard support (optional):

pip install typetree[clipboard]

Examples

Nested iterables:

import typetree

d = [{'a', 'b', 1, 2, (3, 4), (5, 6), 'c', .1}, {'a': 0, 'b': ...}]
typetree.print_tree(d)

<list>[2]
├── [0]: <set>[8]
│   ├── (×1) <float>
│   ├── (×2) <int>
│   ├── (×2) <tuple>[2]
│   │   └── [:2]: <int>
│   └── (×3) <str>
└── [1]: <dict>[2]
    ├── ['a']: <int>
    └── ['b']: <ellipsis>

Attributes

Only the mutable attributes returned by vars() are shown by default. If you wish to view the other attributes too, use include_dir=True. This will search the dir() attributes, except the special (__special__) and the protected (_protected) ones. This can be changed by setting include_special=True and include_protected=True. Beware that this will drastically increase the tree size, so you should also limit the search depth max_depth and/or number of branches max_branches, or the application will likely freeze.

typetree.print_tree((0,), include_dir=True, max_depth=2, max_lines=15)

<tuple>[1]
├── .count: <builtin_function_or_method>
├── .index: <builtin_function_or_method>
└── [0]: <int>
    ├── .as_integer_ratio: <builtin_function_or_method>
    ├── .bit_count: <builtin_function_or_method>
    ├── .bit_length: <builtin_function_or_method>
    ├── .conjugate: <builtin_function_or_method>
    ├── .denominator: <int>
    │   └── ...
    ├── .from_bytes: <builtin_function_or_method>
    ├── .imag: <...> <int>
    │   └── ...
    ├── .numerator: <...> <int>
...

Note that the last two items have a special tag <...> which means it has identified an infinite recursion.

XML etree integration

Use type_name_lookup to specify how to retrieve the string to be displayed as the type name. End nodes of XML etrees are empty tuples, so the parameter value_lookup should also be given to specify how to retrieve their values.

import urllib.request
import xml.etree.ElementTree

url = 'https://www.w3schools.com/xml/simple.xml'
with urllib.request.urlopen(url) as response:
    r = response.read()
text = str(r, encoding='utf-8')
tree = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(text)

typetree.print_tree(
    tree,
    type_name_lookup=lambda x: x.tag,
    value_lookup=lambda x: x.text,
)

<breakfast_menu>[5]
└── [:5]: <food>[4]
    ├── [0]: <name>
    ├── [1]: <price>
    ├── [2]: <description>
    └── [3]: <calories>

DOM integration

DOM objects are not directly iterable. Child nodes must be accessed through attribute lookup, which can be specified by the parameter items_lookup:

import xml.dom.minidom

dom = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(text)

typetree.print_tree(
    dom,
    items_lookup=lambda x: x.childNodes,
    type_name_lookup=lambda x: x.nodeName,
    value_lookup=lambda x: x.text,
    max_lines=10,
)

<#document>[1]
└── [0]: <breakfast_menu>[11]
    ├── [0]: <#text>
    ├── [1]: <food>[9]
    │   ├── [0]: <#text>
    │   ├── [1]: <name>[1]
    │   │   └── [0]: <#text>
    │   ├── [2]: <#text>
    │   ├── [3]: <price>[1]
...

Alternatively, you can use configuration templates:

typetree.print_tree(dom, template=typetree.DOM, max_lines=10)

Which gives the same output.

Interactive GUI

import json

url2 = 'https://archive.org/metadata/TheAdventuresOfTomSawyer_201303'

with urllib.request.urlopen(url2) as response2:
    r2 = response2.read()
text2 = str(r2, encoding='utf-8')
json2 = json.loads(text2)

typetree.view_tree(json2)

• Double click or press Ctrl+C to copy the path to the selected node.

• Use right-click on the plus/minus icons to expand/collapse each of the inner nodes without affecting the node you clicked on.

• You can use the arrow keys to navigate and the space bar instead of the right-click.

Parameters

Configuration parameters

items_lookup: Callable[[Any], Any] = lambda var: var
type_name_lookup: Callable[[Any], str] = lambda var: type(var).__name__
value_lookup: Callable[[Any], Any] = lambda var: var
sort_keys: bool = True
show_lengths: bool = True
include_attributes: bool = True
include_dir: bool = False
include_protected: bool = False
include_special: bool = False
max_lines: float = 1000
max_search: float = 100_000
max_depth: float = 20
max_branches: float = float('inf')

• items_lookup: Function used to access the node’s content.

• type_name_lookup: Function used to get the type name.

• value_lookup: Function used to get the value when the node’s content is empty (tree leaves).

• sort_keys: Flag for sorting keys alphabetically.

• show_lengths: Flag for displaying lengths of iterables. This affects how subtrees are grouped together, since sequences with different sizes but same content types are considered equivalent.

• include_attributes: Flag for including the mutable attributes returned by vars.

• include_dir: Flag for including the attributes returned by dir, except the protected (_protected) and the special (__special__) ones.

• include_protected: Flag for including the protected (_protected) attributes.

• include_special: Flag for including the special (__special__) attributes.

• max_lines: Maximum number of lines to be printed. For the GUI, it is the maximum number of rows to be displayed, not including the extra ellipsis at the end. Can be disabled by setting it to infinity (float('inf') or math.inf).

• max_search: Maximum number of nodes searched.

• max_depth: Maximum search depth.

• max_branches: Maximum number of branches displayed on each node. This only applies after grouping.

Additionally, there are also helper classes of configuration templates for common object types. Currently, the templates are:

• Template (default)

• DOM

• HTML

• XML

These templates can be passed to the parameter template.

GUI

For the GUI, both the Tree(...).view method and the view_tree function accept two additional arguments to configure whether the new window is created asynchronously and by which method (threading or multiprocessing):

spawn_thread: bool = True
spawn_process: bool = False