Friday, March 9, 2012

Recursively formatting a dictionary of strings

I have a use-case where I'm using a dictionary as a basis for generating a configuration file, and many of the values in the file share pieces, such as URL bases or credentials. I will also be generating configuration files for several different instances from the same dictionary.
I wanted a simple way to define replaceable parts of the dictionary. I made a couple of Google searches, didn't find anything on the first page, so I wrote this:
I hope it's useful to someone else, or that I find it next time I have this use-case. :)
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3 comments:

  1. Alexander AfanasievMarch 18, 2012 at 4:36 AM

    Thanks. It can be useful.

    Btw, you can replace type({}) with types.DictionaryType and type("") with types.StringType.

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  2. Alec MunroMarch 18, 2012 at 6:38 PM

    Thanks Alexander. I knew there was a simpler way to reference those basic types, but I always forget it at code time. :)

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