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

I actually wrote a package called cherrypicker recently to deal with this exact sort of thing since I had to do it so often!

I think the following code would give you exactly what you're after:

from cherrypicker import CherryPicker

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

picker = CherryPicker(dct)
picker.flatten().get()

You can install the package with:

pip install cherrypicker

...and there's more docs and guidance at https://cherrypicker.readthedocs.io.

Other methods may be faster, but the priority of this package is to make such tasks easy. If you do have a large list of objects to flatten though, you can also tell CherryPicker to use parallel processing to speed things up.