spacepy.toolbox.dictree

spacepy.toolbox.dictree(in_dict, verbose=False, spaces=None, levels=True, attrs=False, **kwargs)

pretty print a dictionary tree

Parameters

in_dictdict

a complex dictionary (with substructures)

verboseboolean (optional)

print more info

spacesstring (optional)

string will added for every line

levelsinteger (optional)

number of levels to recurse through (True means all)

attrsboolean (optional)

display information for attributes

Examples

>>> import spacepy.toolbox as tb
>>> d = {'grade':{'level1':[4,5,6], 'level2':[2,3,4]}, 'name':['Mary', 'John', 'Chris']}
>>> tb.dictree(d)
+
|____grade
     |____level1
     |____level2
|____name

More complicated example using a datamodel:

>>> from spacepy import datamodel
>>> counts = datamodel.dmarray([2,4,6], attrs={'units': 'cts/s'})
>>> data = {'counts': counts, 'PI': 'Dr Zog'}
>>> tb.dictree(data)
+
|____PI
|____counts
>>> tb.dictree(data, attrs=True, verbose=True)
+
|____PI (str [6])
|____counts (spacepy.datamodel.dmarray (3,))
    :|____units (str [5])

Attributes of, e.g., a CDF or a datamodel type object (obj.attrs) are denoted by a colon.