On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 2:09 PM Raymond Hettinger
<raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [GvR]
> > We should not try to import JavaScript's object model into Python.
>
> Yes, I get that. Just want to point-out that working with heavily nested
> dictionaries (typical for JSON) is no fun with square brackets and quotation
> marks.
>
My solution to that has usually been something along the lines of:
def get(obj, path):
for step in path.split("-"):
obj = obj[step]
return obj
print(get(catalog, 'clothing-mens-shoes-extra_wide-quantity'))
Will often be custom-tweaked to the situation, but the basic idea is the same.
ChrisA
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