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Find all occurences of a key in nested python dictionaries and lists - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9807634/find-all-occurences-of-a-key-in-nested-python-dictionaries-and-lists
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def find(key, dictionary): | |
for k, v in dictionary.items(): | |
if k == key: | |
yield v | |
elif isinstance(v, dict): | |
for result in find(key, v): | |
yield result | |
elif isinstance(v, list): | |
for d in v: | |
for result in find(key, d): | |
yield result | |
example = {'app_url': '', 'models': [{'perms': {'add': True, 'change': True, 'delete': True}, 'add_url': '/admin/cms/news/add/', 'admin_url': '/admin/cms/news/', 'name': ''}], 'has_module_perms': True, 'name': u'CMS'} | |
list(find('admin_url', example)) |
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I updated this to work with Python 3 by changing line 2 to use
items()
.