Wanted a simple function to concatenate n dictionaries. Each dictionary passed in is deep copied to avoid any possible mutation of dictionaries being concatenated. Dictionary m's key/values will be overwritten by dictionary m+1's key/values.
This is a model that implements (most of) the python dictionary interface. Meaning, you can work with this model exactly like a python dictionary, and it handles querying the database for it's values, saving/deleting the helper objects, etc. I wrote this originally when I needed to store an arbitrary dictionary in the database, and decided to work it up into a near-complete implementation of a dictionary. In order to make sure that the dictionary is the most optimized possible, I have a static method that can be used for retrieval. Feel free to ignore it if you don't care about optimizing database queries. Here's an example: Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Jun 24 2010, 21:47:49) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. (InteractiveConsole) >>> from binder.models import Dictionary >>> d = Dictionary.getDict('Foobar') >>> print d {u'Foobar': u'omgbbq', u'HAHAHAH': u"who's afraid of a big, black, bat?"} >>> d['pot'] = 'The kettle is black.' >>> print d {u'Foobar': u'omgbbq', u'pot': u'The kettle is black.', u'HAHAHAH': u"who's afraid of a big, black, bat?"} >>> print d['pot'] The kettle is black. >>> for k, v in d.iteritems(): ... print k +":", v ... Foobar: omgbbq HAHAHAH: who's afraid of a big, black, bat? pot: The kettle is black. >>> print d.keys() [u'Foobar', u'HAHAHAH', u'pot'] >>> print d.values() [u'omgbbq', u"who's afraid of a big, black, bat?", u'The kettle is black.'] >>> There's several more functions that I've implemented; check the code to see. (An interesting note: DictField saves immediately upon making a change, which is good to keep in mind in case that functionality isn't expected.) Hope someone finds this useful. :) --Chris
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