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Perfect for handling nested dictionaries where values might not exist.
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safeget.py
def safeget(dct, *keys):
dct = dict(dct)
for key in keys:
try:
dct = dct[key]
except (KeyError, AttributeError, TypeError) as e:
return None
return dct
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