toolrack.iterate

Utility functions for iterables.

toolrack.iterate.flatten_dict(data, join_char='.', prefix='')

Flatten a nested dict to (key, value) tuples.

A neted dict like:

{'foo': {'bar': 3, 'baz': 4},
 'bza': 'something'}

is flattened in a sequence of tuples like:

('foo.bar': 3), ('foo.baz': 4), ('bza': 'something')

Parameters:

• data (dict) – a dict to flatten.
• join_char (str) – the character to use to join key tokens.
• prefix (str) – an optional prefix to prepend to keys.