Minimal library that enables flattening of nested instances of container types.
Project description
Minimal library that enables flattening of nested instances of container types.
Package Installation and Usage
The package is available on PyPI:
python -m pip install flats
The library can be imported in the usual ways:
import flats from flats import flats
Examples
This library provides a function that can flatten any instance of a container type that is the root of a tree of nested instances of container types, returning as an iterable the sequence of all objects or values (that are not of a container type) encountered during an in-order traversal. Any instance of the Iterable class or of the GeneratorType type is considered to be an instance of a container type by this library:
>>> from flats import flats >>> list(flats([[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6, 7]])) [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
The nested instances need not be of the same type:
>>> tuple(flats([{1}, {2}, {3}, frozenset({4}), iter([5, 6, 7])])) (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) >>> list(flats(['abc', 'xyz'])) ['a', 'b', 'c', 'x', 'y', 'z'] >>> list(flats([range(3), range(3)])) [0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2]
It is also possible to limit the depth to which nested instances of a container type are recursively traversed:
>>> list(flats([[[1, 2], 3], [4, 5, 6, 7]], depth=1)) [[1, 2], 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] >>> list(flats([[[1, 2], 3], [4, 5, 6, 7]], depth=2)) [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] >>> list(flats([[[1, [2]], 3], [4, [[[5]]], 6, 7]], depth=float('inf'))) [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
Documentation
The documentation can be generated automatically from the source files using Sphinx:
cd docs python -m pip install -r requirements.txt sphinx-apidoc -f -E --templatedir=_templates -o _source .. ../setup.py && make html
Testing and Conventions
All unit tests are executed and their coverage is measured when using nose (see setup.cfg for configuration details):
python -m pip install nose coverage nosetests --cover-erase
Alternatively, all unit tests are included in the module itself and can be executed using doctest:
python flats/flats.py -v
Style conventions are enforced using Pylint:
python -m pip install pylint pylint flats
Contributions
In order to contribute to the source code, open an issue or submit a pull request on the GitHub page for this library.
Versioning
Beginning with version 0.1.0, the version number format for this library and the changes to the library associated with version number increments conform with Semantic Versioning 2.0.0.
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