Flatten nested dictionaries, compressing keys

Question

Suppose you have a dictionary like:

{\'a\': 1,
 \'c\': {\'a\': 2,
       \'b\': {\'x\': 5,
             \'y\' : 10}},
 \'d\': [1, 2, 3]}

Ho

Answer 1

If you want to flat nested dictionary and want all unique keys list then here is the solution:

def flat_dict_return_unique_key(data, unique_keys=set()):
    if isinstance(data, dict):
        [unique_keys.add(i) for i in data.keys()]
        for each_v in data.values():
            if isinstance(each_v, dict):
                flat_dict_return_unique_key(each_v, unique_keys)
    return list(set(unique_keys))