I'd like to know how to make the following string:
food
fruit
red
cherry
yellow
banana
meat
pork
foo
bar
baz
qux
Result in a dictionary like this:
{'food': {'fruit': {'red': 'cherry', 'yellow': 'banana'}, 'meat':
'pork'}, 'foo': {'bar': 'baz', 'qux': {}}}
Or something like that (if you understand). What would be the best way
of doing so? I'm thinking re.finditer might be appropriate, but I'm not
sure. I'd prefer not looping TOO much, since it's actually made using a
loop or two.
Actually, if anyone has a better idea of how to do the entire thing,
that'd be even better:
def hierarchy(data, parent='', level=0, out=''):
for item in which_parent(data, parent):
out += ' ' * level + item + '\n'
out = hierarchy(data, item, level + 1, out)
return out
def which_parent(data, parent):
return filter(None, [item[1] == parent and item[0] or None for item
in data])
data = (('food', ''),
('fruit', 'food'),
('red', 'fruit'),
('yellow', 'fruit'),
('cherry', 'red'),
('banana', 'yellow'),
('meat', 'food'),
('pork', 'meat'),
('foo', ''),
('bar', 'foo'),
('baz', 'bar'),
('qux', 'foo'))
print hierarchy(data)
-- Keep in mind that I don't want a string, I want a dictionary (but I
can't figure out how to do it).
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