dotty_dict

Safely get nested dict value by dot notation key.

Dotty dict-like object allow to access deeply nested keys using dot notation. Create Dotty from dict or other dict-like object to use magic of Dotty.

• Free software: MIT license
• Documentation: https://dotty-dict.readthedocs.io.

Features

• Accessing deeply nested key using dot notation
• Returns None if key does not exist instead of raising KeyError exception
• Assigning to deeply nested existing or not yet existing key
• Get deeply nested value or provided default value with .get() method

TODO

• Escape dot sign to allow accessing keys with dot in it

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.