A nested dictionary which creates subnotes on the fly.
Python, 9 lines
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Copy to clipboard1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | class auto_dict(dict):
def __getitem__(self, key):
return self.setdefault(key, self.__class__())
if __name__ == "__main__":
d = auto_dict()
d["foo"]["bar"]["baz"] = 42
print d
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After reading an article about autovivication hashes in Ruby, I tried to find a simpler solution for Python.
I want a nested dictionary like objects, which can be indexed in multiple dimensions and which elements are automatically created, when accessed.
The implementation I used before is about 10 lines of code, this one is shorter and imho more elegant.
It used the setdefault() method of a dictionay to add another instance of self.__class__ as the default value for every key.
