Hi Allan, Max, and bearophile
Many thanks for your replies to this. The number of levels can be deeper
than two for creating child, sibling relationships. This can lead to
futher nesting as shown in my sample result list (the result I am
attempting to acheive) which is reason that I believe this has to be
recursive to work. As an illustration, I have altered the source_dict to
show this by making Geometries the parent of Geometry. I should have
gone one more level to illustrate this properly - my apologies for not
doing this better.
source_list = [{'title': 'Project', 'parent':'root'},
{'title': 'Geometry', 'parent':'Geometries'},
{'title': 'Soil', 'parent':'root'},
{'title': 'Geometries', 'parent':'Project'},
{'title': 'Verticals', 'parent':'Project'},
{'title': 'Points', 'parent':'Geometry'},
{'title': 'Layers', 'parent':'Geometry'},
{'title': 'Water', 'parent':'Geometry'},
{'title': 'Soiltypes', 'parent':'Soil'}
]
Project and Soil in root,
Geometries (Geometries containing Geometry with its siblings) and
Verticals in Project,
Soiltypes in Soil
In this instance, I am looking for a result list that looks like this:
result_list = [
# Project
['Project', ['Geometries',['Geometry', ['Points',
'Layers','Water']],'Verticals']],
# Soil
['Soil', ['Soiltypes']]
]
I have not yet installed http://sourceforge.net/projects/pynetwork/ but
will also give this a try. What I need is something like elementree
minus the xml since I am working with list of dicts obtained from more
than one type of source.
Regards,
David
>>>>imd=dict()
>>>>for d in source_list:
>
> par=d['parent']
> v=d['title']
> try:
> imd[par].append(v)
> except:
> imd[par]=[v]
>
>
>
>>>>imd
>
> {'Project': ['Geometries', 'Verticals'], 'Geometry': ['Points',
> 'Layers', 'Water'], 'root': ['Project', 'Geometry', 'Soil'], 'Soil':
> ['Soiltypes']}
>
>
> max
>
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