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Find all occurences of a key in a nested Python dictionary and return the occurences together with the keys
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def find(find_object, result, keys=[]): | |
if isinstance(find_object, dict): | |
for key, value in find_object.iteritems(): | |
find(value, result, keys + [key]) | |
else: | |
if not(result): | |
result['values'] = [find_object] | |
result['keys'] = [keys] | |
else: | |
result['values'].append(find_object) | |
result['keys'].append(keys) | |
# Example 1 | |
dict_example1 = {'key1': {'key1.1': ['value1.1.1','value1.1.2']}, | |
'key2': 'value2', | |
'key3': {'key3.1': 'value3.1', 'key3.2': 'value3.2'}, | |
'key4': ['value4.1', 'value4.2'], | |
'key5': {'key5.1': {'key5.1.1': ['value5.1.1.1']}} | |
} | |
# A result dictionary has to be provided, if this dictionary is | |
# declared in the function itself, the same object in memory keeps | |
# being addressing | |
result_example1 = {} | |
find(dict_example1, result_example1) | |
for i in range(len(result_example1['keys'])): | |
print("keys: %s; values: %s" % (result_example1['keys'][i], | |
result_example1['values'][i])) |
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