README.md

dtree: Linux tree but for dictionaries

Dictionaries are fun and useful!. But just like a folder structure, they can be multitiered storing all kinds of things in nested hierarchies. tree is a Linux utility that prints the multilevel structure of directories as a beautiful tree. dtree does the same but for dictionaries.

Example

Consider the following dictionary

dictionary = { "A": { "B": { "C": 0, "D": "some-string" }, "E": None }, "F": { "G": 0.0, "H": set([]) } }

Using dtree you can print the tree structure in different ways:

Installation

This utility can be installed directly from PyPI as:

pip install dtree-metalcycling

For local installations intended for development, from the top of this repository run:

pip install -e .

Known limitations

This version currenly prints the str representation of the dictionary keys for the nodes of the tree. When keys are custom class objects, printing them could be very verbose so that would cause issues with the printed tree. I'll fix this in future PRs.