dotty-dict 0.1.9

Dotty dict-like object allow to access deeply nested keys using dot notation.

dotty_dict

Dotty dictionary with support_for[‘dot.notation.keys’].

Dotty dict-like object allow to access deeply nested keys using dot notation. Create Dotty from dict or other dict-like object to use magic of Dotty.

Ultimate goal is to match all Python dictionary method to work with deeply nested Dotty keys.

• Free software: MIT license

• Documentation: https://dotty-dict.readthedocs.io.

Features

• Access and assign deeply nested dictionary key using dot notation

• Return None if key doesn’t exist instead of KeyError exception

• Get deeply nested value or default value with .get() method

TODO

• Escape dot char for dictionary keys with dot: dotty_dict[‘key.key’]

• Delete deeply nested keys: del dotty_dict[‘key.key’]

• Check if key exists in deeply nested dictionary: key.key.key in dotty_dict

• Check if key does not exist in deeply nested dictionary: deeply.nested not in dotty_dict

• Pop nested key: pop( key.key.key[, default] )

• Set default bug fix

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.

History

0.1.9 (2017-05-06)

Changed

• __getitem__ will call __missing__ method if key does not exist

Added

• __missing__ method which returns None

• full documentation of dotty_dict usage

0.1.8 (2017-05-03)

Changed

• Travis YAML configuration compatible with TOX

0.1.0 (2017-05-03)

Added

• First release on PyPI.