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A getattr and setattr that works on nested objects, lists, dicts, and any combination thereof without resorting to eval
A getattr and setattr that works on nested objects, lists, dictionaries, and any combination thereof without resorting to eval.
It differs from getattr and setattr in that it retains the failure cause instead of always raising an AttributeError.
Say we have a person class as follows:
class Person:
settings = {
'autosave': True,
'style': {
'height': 30,
'width': 200
},
'themes': ['light', 'dark']
}
def __init__(self, name, age, friends):
self.name = name
self.age = age
self.friends = friends
bob = Person(name="Bob", age=31, friends=[])
jill = Person(name="Jill", age=29, friends=[bob])
jack = Person(name="Jack", age=28, friends=[bob, jill])
With magicattr we can do this
# Nothing new
assert magicattr.get(bob, 'age') == 31
# Lists
assert magicattr.get(jill, 'friends[0].name') == 'Bob'
assert magicattr.get(jack, 'friends[-1].age') == 29
# Dict lookups
assert magicattr.get(jack, 'settings["style"]["width"]') == 200
# Combination of lookups
assert magicattr.get(jack, 'settings["themes"][-2]') == 'light'
assert magicattr.get(jack, 'friends[-1].settings["themes"][1]') == 'dark'
# Setattr
magicattr.set(bob, 'settings["style"]["width"]', 400)
assert magicattr.get(bob, 'settings["style"]["width"]') == 400
# Nested objects
magicattr.set(bob, 'friends', [jack, jill])
assert magicattr.get(jack, 'friends[0].friends[0]') == jack
magicattr.set(jill, 'friends[0].age', 32)
assert bob.age == 32
You can also delete like this too.
# Deletion
magicattr.delete(jill, 'friends[0]')
assert len(jill.friends) == 0
magicattr.delete(jill, 'age')
assert not hasattr(jill, 'age')
magicattr.delete(bob, 'friends[0].age')
assert not hasattr(jack, 'age')
What if someone tries to mess with you?
# Unsupported
with pytest.raises(NotImplementedError) as e:
magicattr.get(bob, 'friends[0+1]')
with pytest.raises(SyntaxError) as e:
magicattr.get(bob, 'friends[')
with pytest.raises(ValueError) as e:
magicattr.get(bob, 'friends = [1,1]')
# Nice try, function calls are not allowed
with pytest.raises(ValueError):
magicattr.get(bob, 'friends.pop(0)')
Did I miss anything? Let me know!
Slicing, expressions, function calls, append/pop from lists, eval stuff, etc...
Parses the attr string into an ast node and manually evaluates it.
pip install magicattr
MIT
Hope it helps, cheers!
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A getattr and setattr that works on nested objects, lists, dicts, and any combination thereof without resorting to eval
We found that magicattr demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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