Utilities to work with hierarchical dictionaries

When working with simulation data or simply creating data visualizations, I often find myself wishing for a readable representation of a nested structure. In python these are typically dicts containing dicts or something alike.

So, this is where this ipython extension comes in:

• Tab completion across levels for benedicts (plain dicts asap)

• Pretty printing dictionaries and similar types in a tree-like structure.

dict(
    lorem = "ipsum",
    first_level = dict(
        second_level = dict(
            some_entry = 8.15,
            another_entry = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4],
        )

    )
)

<class 'dict'>
├── lorem .................................... str  ipsum
└── first_level
    └── second_level
        ├── some_entry ..................... float  8.15
        └── another_entry ................... list  (5)

Install

Optional, but recommended

pip install python-benedict
pip install h5py

Required

pip install ipy_dict_hierarchy

In jupyter or ipython, to load manually

%load_ext ipy_dict_hierarchy