Home Original page

Presenting recursive dict (json_diff)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Thu Oct 27 15:49:47 EDT 2011 
On 10/27/2011 4:50 AM, mcepl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have here a simple script (https://gitorious.org/json_diff/mainline)
> which makes a diff between two JSON files. So for JSON objects
>
> {
>      "a": 1,
>      "b": 2,
>      "son": {
>          "name": "Janošek"
>      }
> }
>
> and
>
> {
>      "a": 2,
>      "c": 3,
>      "daughter": {
>          "name": "Maruška"
>      }
> }
>
> it generates
>
> {
>      "append": {
>          "c": 3,
>          "daughter": {
>              "name": "Maruška"
>          }
>      },
>      "remove": {
>          "b": 2,
>          "son": {
>              "name": "Janošek"
>          }
>      },
>      "update": {
>          "a": 2
>      }
> }
>
> (obvious problems with name conflicts between internal keys and the
> investigated keys will be somehow addressed later; any simple Pythonic
> suggestions how?)

Use '_append', etc, much like namedtuple does, for the same reason.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy
More information about the Python-list mailing list