"""A more or less complete user-defined wrapper around dictionary objects.""" class UserDict: def __init__(self, dict=None, **kwargs): self.data = {} if dict is not None: self.update(dict) if len(kwargs): self.update(kwargs) def __repr__(self): return repr(self.data) def __eq__(self, dict): if isinstance(dict, UserDict): return self.data == dict.data else: return self.data == dict def __ne__(self, dict): if isinstance(dict, UserDict): return self.data != dict.data else: return self.data != dict def __len__(self): return len(self.data) def __getitem__(self, key): if key in self.data: return self.data[key] if hasattr(self.__class__, "__missing__"): return self.__class__.__missing__(self, key) raise KeyError(key) def __setitem__(self, key, item): self.data[key] = item def __delitem__(self, key): del self.data[key] def clear(self): self.data.clear() def copy(self): if self.__class__ is UserDict: return UserDict(self.data.copy()) import copy data = self.data try: self.data = {} c = copy.copy(self) finally: self.data = data c.update(self) return c def keys(self): return self.data.keys() def items(self): return self.data.items() def values(self): return self.data.values() def update(self, dict=None, **kwargs): if dict is None: pass elif isinstance(dict, UserDict): self.data.update(dict.data) elif isinstance(dict, type({})) or not hasattr(dict, 'items'): self.data.update(dict) else: for k, v in dict.items(): self[k] = v if len(kwargs): self.data.update(kwargs) def get(self, key, failobj=None): if key not in self: return failobj return self[key] def setdefault(self, key, failobj=None): if key not in self: self[key] = failobj return self[key] def pop(self, key, *args): return self.data.pop(key, *args) def popitem(self): return self.data.popitem() def __contains__(self, key): return key in self.data @classmethod def fromkeys(cls, iterable, value=None): d = cls() for key in iterable: d[key] = value return d class IterableUserDict(UserDict): def __iter__(self): return iter(self.data)