Thanks everyone for the feedback and suggestions. I agree that there are many
ways one could easily implement this (chaining, reduce, looping, etc.). I
could continue to maintain a utility function and copy that around to all of
code bases where I need this functionality, which is what I do to
I did some searching to see if this has already been proposed before, but
didn't find any evidence that it has. If so, let me know and I'll go away :)
One of the tasks that I encounter frequently enough is retrieving a nested key
from a nested collection of dictionaries (a dictionary of diction
