typetree 0.1.0

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>
...

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_search=15,
)

<#document>[1]
└── [0]: <breakfast_menu>[11]
    ├── [0]: <#text>
    ├── [1]: <food>[9]
    │   ├── [0]: <#text>
    │   ├── [1]: <name>[1]
    │   │   └── [0]: <#text>
    │   ├── [2]: <#text>
    │   ├── [3]: <price>[1]
    │   │   └── [0]: <#text>
    │   ├── [4]: <#text>
    │   ├── [5]: <description>[1]
    │   │   └── [0]: <#text>
    │   ├── [6]: <#text>
    │   ...
    ├── [2]: <#text>
    ...

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)

view_tree(json2)

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_branches: float = 20
max_depth: float = 10
max_search: float = 1000
max_lines: float = 1000

• 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 will be 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 special (__special__) ones.

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

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

• max_branches: Maximum number of branches displayed on each node This only applies after grouping. Can be disabled by setting it to infinity (float('inf') or math.inf).

• max_depth: Maximum display depth. Beware that the true search depth is one higher than specified. Can be disabled by setting it to infinity (not recommended).

• max_search: Maximum number of nodes searched. Can be disabled by setting it to infinity.

• 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.

GUI

For the GUI, both the typetree.Tree(...).view method and the typetree.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