nested_lookup
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A small Python library which enables key lookups on deeply nested documents.

Documents may be built out of dictionaries (dicts) and/or lists.

Make working with JSON, YAML, and XML document responses fun again!

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install
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install from pypi using pip::

 pip install nested-lookup

or easy_install::

 easy_install nested-lookup

or install from source using::

 git clone https://github.com/russellballestrini/nested-lookup.git
 cd nested-lookup
 pip install .

tutorial
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.. code-block:: python

 >>> from nested_lookup import nested_lookup

 >>> document = [ { 'taco' : 42 } , { 'salsa' : [ { 'burrito' : { 'taco' : 69 } } ] } ]

 >>> print(nested_lookup('taco', document))
 [42, 69]

misc
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:authors: Russell Ballestrini, Douglas Miranda

:web: http://russell.ballestrini.net, https://gist.github.com/douglasmiranda/5127251

:license: Public Domain