monty.collections module

Useful collection classes, e.g., tree, frozendict, etc.

class monty.collections.AttrDict(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: dict

Allows to access dict keys as obj.foo in addition to the traditional way obj[‘foo’]”

Example

>>> d = AttrDict(foo=1, bar=2)
>>> assert d["foo"] == d.foo
>>> d.bar = "hello"
>>> assert d.bar == "hello"

• Parameters
  • args – Passthrough arguments for standard dict.
  • kwargs – Passthrough keyword arguments for standard dict.

copy()

• Returns Copy of AttrDict

class monty.collections.FrozenAttrDict(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: frozendict

A dictionary that:

* does not permit changes.


* Allows to access dict keys as obj.foo in addition
to the traditional way obj[‘foo’]

• Parameters
  • args – Passthrough arguments for standard dict.
  • kwargs – Passthrough keyword arguments for standard dict.

class monty.collections.MongoDict(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: object

This dict-like object allows one to access the entries in a nested dict as attributes. Entries (attributes) cannot be modified. It also provides Ipython tab completion hence this object is particularly useful if you need to analyze a nested dict interactively (e.g. documents extracted from a MongoDB database).

>>> m = MongoDict({'a': {'b': 1}, 'x': 2})
>>> assert m.a.b == 1 and m.x == 2
>>> assert "a" in m and "b" in m.a
>>> m["a"]
{'b': 1}

NOTE: Cannot inherit from ABC collections.Mapping because otherwise dict.keys and dict.items will pollute the namespace. e.g MongoDict({“keys”: 1}).keys would be the ABC dict method.

• Parameters
  • args – Passthrough arguments for standard dict.
  • kwargs – Passthrough keyword arguments for standard dict.

class monty.collections.Namespace(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: dict

A dictionary that does not permit to redefine its keys.

• Parameters
  • args – Passthrough arguments for standard dict.
  • kwargs – Passthrough keyword arguments for standard dict.

update(*args, **kwargs)

• Parameters
  • args – Passthrough arguments for standard dict.
  • kwargs – Passthrough keyword arguments for standard dict.

monty.collections.dict2namedtuple(*args, **kwargs)

Helper function to create a namedtuple from a dictionary.

Example

>>> t = dict2namedtuple(foo=1, bar="hello")
>>> assert t.foo == 1 and t.bar == "hello"

>>> t = dict2namedtuple([("foo", 1), ("bar", "hello")])
>>> assert t[0] == t.foo and t[1] == t.bar

WARNING:

• The order of the items in the namedtuple is not deterministic if kwargs are used. namedtuples, however, should always be accessed by attribute hence this behaviour should not represent a serious problem.
• Don’t use this function in code in which memory and performance are crucial since a dict is needed to instantiate the tuple!

class monty.collections.frozendict(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: dict

A dictionary that does not permit changes. The naming violates PEP8 to be consistent with standard Python’s “frozenset” naming.

• Parameters
  • args – Passthrough arguments for standard dict.
  • kwargs – Passthrough keyword arguments for standard dict.

update(*args, **kwargs)

• Parameters
  • args – Passthrough arguments for standard dict.
  • kwargs – Passthrough keyword arguments for standard dict.

monty.collections.tree()

A tree object, which is effectively a recursive defaultdict that adds tree as members.

Usage:

x = tree()
x[‘a’][‘b’][‘c’] = 1

• Returns A tree.