More Data Structures
or more-ds for short,
provides simple and convenient Python data structures.
The projected started
with the need to extract the simplest of classes
from an exitsting open source library, nwa-stdlib.
That library primarily contained code
that was rather specific to the organization that created the library.
However, the URL class was a tiny convenience data structure,
with broader applicability,
that took the chore out of programmatically creating URLs.
By extracting that class into a separate project,
one that is specifically focussed on convenient data structures,
it hopefully attracts a broader set of users
that would otherwise don't feel comfortable including nwa-stdlib as a whole.
The project's name was inpired by the wonderful More Itertools library.
There is currently one data structure available (more to follow):
URL
The URL class is a str (overrides it).
Hence, can be used anywhere a regular string is used.
It overrides two magical methods
that correspond to the / and // operators.
The / operator is used to concatenate separate path components of a URL.
The // operator is used to append a query string by supplying it with a dictionary.
An example should make this clear:
>>> from more_ds.network.url import URL
>>> base_url = URL("http://example.org/")
>>> api_url = base_url / "api"
>>> url = api_url / "ip" / "address" // dict(version=4)
>>> print(url)
http://example.org/api/ip/address?version=4When adding path components,
the / operator will insert or remove redundant slashes where necessary.
The // automatically take cares of properly URL encoding the keys and values.