Source code for aiida_vasp.utils.extended_dicts

"""
Extensions of dictionaries.

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Extensions of Pythons standard dict as well as Aiida's AttributeDict.
"""
import collections.abc
from copy import deepcopy

from aiida.common.extendeddicts import AttributeDict


[docs] class DictWithAttributes(AttributeDict): """ Extension of the AttributeDict from Aiida.common. This class internally stores values in a dictionary, but exposes the keys also as attributes, i.e. asking for attrdict.key will return the value of attrdict['key'] and so on. If the key is not in the dict a default value will be returned. """ def __getattr__(self, attr): """Read a key as an attribute. Return a Default value on missing key.""" return self.get(attr) def __setattr__(self, attr, value): """Set a key as an attribute.""" self[attr] = value
[docs] def delete_keys_from_dict(dictionary, keys): """ Delete a key from a nested dictionary. Extended to support somekey.someotherkey in case we need some restrictions on the nesting. """ if not isinstance(keys, list): keylist = [keys] else: keylist = keys for key in keylist: nested_keys = key.strip().split('.') delete_nested_key(dictionary, nested_keys)
[docs] def delete_nested_key(dictionary, keys): """Delete the dictionary entry corresponding to a nested hierarchy of keys.""" from collections.abc import MutableMapping # pylint: disable=import-outside-toplevel from contextlib import suppress # pylint: disable=import-outside-toplevel if keys and dictionary: element = keys[0] if element: value = dictionary.get(element) if len(keys) == 1: with suppress(KeyError): del dictionary[element] else: if isinstance(value, MutableMapping): delete_nested_key(value, keys[1:])
[docs] def update_nested_dict(dict1, dict2): """Updated a nested dictionary, where dict1 is updated with values in dict2.""" for key, value in dict2.items(): dict1_value = dict1.get(key) if isinstance(value, collections.abc.Mapping) and isinstance(dict1_value, collections.abc.Mapping): update_nested_dict(dict1_value, value) else: dict1[key] = deepcopy(value)
[docs] def find_key_in_dicts(dictionary, supplied_key): """Find a key in a nested dictionary.""" for key, value in dictionary.items(): if key == supplied_key: yield value elif isinstance(value, dict): for result in find_key_in_dicts(value, supplied_key): yield result