On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 2:09 PM Raymond Hettinger <[email protected]> wrote: > > [GvR] > > We should not try to import JavaScript's object model into Python. > > Yes, I get that. Just want to point-out that working with heavily nested > dictionaries (typical for JSON) is no fun with square brackets and quotation > marks. >
My solution to that has usually been something along the lines of:
def get(obj, path):
for step in path.split("-"):
obj = obj[step]
return obj
print(get(catalog, 'clothing-mens-shoes-extra_wide-quantity'))
Will often be custom-tweaked to the situation, but the basic idea is the same.
ChrisA
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