Ultra Path

This module is made out of a simple C extension to help reduce the total time required to extract items from highly nested structures. At the moment it supports retrieving items from nested structures made out of dictionaries and lists but it can be easily extended to support other mappings or iterables.

Usage:

>>> from upath import getp

>>> getp({"level0": {"level1": [{"level3": 3}]}}, "level0.level1.0.level3") 3

>>> getp({"level0": {"level1": [{"level3": 3}]}}, "level0/level1/0/level3", '/', None) 3

>>> getp({"level0": {"level1": [{"level3": 3}]}}, "level0/level1/0/level77777777", '/', "Default value") 'Default value'

Only positional arguments are supported, so this will not work:

>>> getp({"level0": {"level1": [{"level3": 3}]}}, "level0/level1/0/level3", default='Works') None

Check C extensions documentation here: https://docs.python.org/3/extending/