ShuYuHuang / what-a-dict

Dictionary class with advanced functionality

what-a-dict

Dictionary class with advanced functionality

Installation

Make sure your are using the up-to-date version of pip

pip install --upgrade pip

Then install the package

pip install what-a-dict

Usage

import the class first

from wad import Dict

Instance Creation

Use it as a dictionary class with string keyword arguments:

# style1
members=Dict(name="SYHuang",
             discriptions="Please Subscribe")
# style2
d={"name":"SYHuang",
    "discriptions":"Please Subscribe"}
members=Dict(**d)

It is also allowed to create instance of Dict which value of traditional dict or Dict

# style1
members=Dict(
    friends={
        "ge62":"computer",
        "iphone":"phone"})
# style2
members=Dict(
    friends=Dict(
        ge62="computer",
        iphone="phone"))

Usage

Items can be get as in a dict

members["friend"]

The keys are also the attribute of this object

members.friend

other functions like iteration, update are the same as in dict:

# update (you can put in a hybrid with "dict"s and "Dict"s)
members.update({"friends":Dict(ge62="good computer")})

# iteration
for k,v in members.items():
    pass

# concatenation
members_new=Dict(members,**{"friends":Dict(ge62="good computer")})
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I provided a way of pretty print FYI:

members.repr_()
# print out:

- layer1 key1: value
- layer1 key2(if it is a list/tuple): value[0] * (lenth of the list/tuple)
- layer1 key3(if it is a Dict):
    - layer2 ke1{a Dict}:
        - layer3 ke1: value

(Example showing for iterable objects can be further extend to numpy array or other tensors, to be discussed)