ducks 0.4.2

Provides Dex, a Python container for indexing objects of any type.

ducks 🦆

Provides Dex, a Python container for indexing objects of any type.

Install

pip install ducks

Usage

from ducks import Dex

objects = [{'x': 4, 'y': 1}, {'x': 6, 'y': 2}, {'x': 8, 'y': 5}]

# Create a Dex containing the objects. Index on x and y.
dex = Dex(objects, ['x', 'y'])  

# find the ones you want
dex[{                           # find objects
    'x': {'>': 5, '<': 10},     # where x is between 5 and 10
    'y': {'in': [1, 2, 3]}      # and y is 1, 2, or 3
}]
# result: [{'x': 6, 'y': 2}]

Valid operators are ==, !=, <, <=, >, >=, in, not in.

Docs

There's more to ducks than making a Dex of dicts. See the docs.