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April 18, 2017 02:00
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describe some new dict structure (probably incoming data)
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def describe_recursively(datum, level=0, level_increment=2): | |
indent = lambda i: "|"+"."*i+"|" | |
info_str = "L{} - TYPE: {:^6} - LEN: {:^5}" | |
if isinstance(datum, list): | |
print(indent(level) + info_str.format(level, 'list', len(datum))) | |
for i, child in enumerate(datum): | |
describe_recursively(child, level+level_increment, level_increment) | |
if i>5 and len(datum)>10: | |
print(indent(level+level_increment)+" ..... ") | |
describe_recursively(datum[-1], level+level_increment, level_increment) | |
break | |
elif isinstance(datum, dict): | |
print(indent(level) + info_str.format(level, 'dict', len(datum))) | |
print(indent(level) + "keys: {}".format("; ".join(map(str,datum.keys())))) | |
print(indent(level)+"---------") | |
for key in datum.keys(): | |
print(indent(level+level_increment-1) + "-key={:<<30}".format(key)) | |
describe_recursively(datum[key], level+level_increment, level_increment) | |
print(indent(level)+"---------") | |
else: | |
print(indent(level) + info_str.format(level, str(type(datum)), "n/a")) |
Author
braingineer
commented
Apr 18, 2017
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