Ok. I've reached a nice little conclusion here. Time to go to bed, but
before that I thought I'd share the results (-;
I can now read a yaml file which natively produces a dict tree and
convert it into an object tree with attribute read/write access, dump
that back into a readable yaml string, and
Oops, I left some redundant cruft in the function... here it is
slightly cleaner:
def expand(dikt):
names = {}
output = {}
def _search(_, sourceDict):
for key, value in sourceDict.items():
if isinstance(value, dict):
_search({}, value)
if
I was kind of wondering what ways are out there to elegantly expand
'$name' identifiers in nested dictionary value. The problem arose when
I wanted to include that kind of functionality to dicts read from yaml
files such that:
def func(input):
# do something
return output
where:
input =
