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From: Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject: Re: Help needed: dynamically pull data from different levels of a dict
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:35:00 -0500
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On 2/29/2012 11:04 PM, Peter Rubenstein wrote:

> I'd appreciate a bit of help on this problem.  I have some data that I've converted to a dict and I want to pull out individual pieces of it.
>
> Simplified version--
> a={'1':'a', '2':'b', '3':{4:'d'}, '5':{'6': {'7': [ {'8':'e'}, {'9':'f'} ] } } }
>
> I'd like to be able to code something like:
>
> data_needed = ['1', '2', '3:4', '5:6:7-8']for val in data_needed:        answer=extract_from(a,val)        print answer
>
> And get:abcde
>
> Problem is I can't figure out what extract_from would look like, such that it would proceed dynamically down to the right level.  I'm open to the possibility that I'm not approaching this the right way.
> If it helps, one member of my actual dict quoted below.  So in real life, something likedata_needed=['name','active-defects', 'admin-status:format', 'description', 'traffic-statistics:input-bps']etc.
>
> Thanks in advance,Peter
>
> { 'ge-0/0/0': {'active-alarms': {'interface-alarms': {'alarm-not-present': ''}},  'active-defects': {'interface-alarms': {'alarm-not-present': ''}},  'admin-status': {'_text': 'up', 'format': 'Enabled'},  'current-physical-address': '00:1f:12:c0:e8:00',  'description': 'INFRA:CROSS:ASH-64CB-1B:GE-0/0/0:',  'hardware-physical-address': '00:1f:12:c0:e8:00',  'if-config-flags': {'iff-snmp-traps': '', 'internal-flags': '0x4000'},  'if-device-flags': {'ifdf-present': '', 'ifdf-running': ''},  'if-flow-control': 'enabled',  'if-media-flags': {'ifmf-none': ''},  'interface-flapped': {'_text': '2010-05-23 18:20:36 UTC (92w3d 02:27 ago)',   'seconds': '55909644'},  'l2pt-error': 'none',  'link-level-type': 'Ethernet',  'local-index': '171',  'logical-interface': {'address-family': [{'address-family-flags': {'ifff-no-redirects': '',      'internal-flags': '0x0'},     'address-family-name': 'inet',     'interface-address': {'ifa-destination': '207.46.43.2/31',      'ifa-flags': {'ifa
f-current-preferred': '', 'ifaf-current-primary': ''},      'ifa-local': '207.46.43.2'},     'mtu': '9178'},    {'address-family-flags': {'ifff-mtu-user-conf': '',      'internal-flags': '0x10000000'},     'address-family-name': 'mpls',     'mtu': '9174'},    {'address-family-flags': {'ifff-none': ''},     'address-family-name': 'multiservice',     'mtu': 'Unlimited'}],   'description': 'INFRA:CROSS:ASH-64CB-1B:GE-0/0/0.0:',   'encapsulation': 'ENET2',   'if-config-flags': {'iff-snmp-traps': ''},   'local-index': '67',   'name': 'ge-0/0/0.0',   'snmp-index': '117',   'traffic-statistics': {'input-packets': '46367422526659',    'output-packets': '35670513402384',    'style': 'brief'}},  'loopback': 'disabled',  'mtu': '9192',  'name': 'ge-0/0/0',  'oper-status': 'up',  'physical-interface-cos-information': {'physical-interface-cos-hw-max-queues': '8',   'physical-interface-cos-use-max-queues': '8'},  'snmp-index': '116',  'source-filtering': 'disabled',  'speed': '10Gbps',  't
raffic-statistics': {'input-bps': '4104358720',   'input-pps': '1059450',   'output-bps': '2323588888',   'output-pps': '537816',   'style': 'brief'}},} 		 	   		


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Terry Jan Reedy