# Copyright 2014, Rackspace US, Inc. # # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. # You may obtain a copy of the License at # # http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 # # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and # limitations under the License. # # (c) 2014, Kevin Carter # (c) 2015, Major Hayden # def merge_dict(base_items, new_items): """Recursively merge new_items into some base_items. If an empty dictionary is provided as a new value, it will completely replace the existing dictionary. :param base_items: ``dict`` :param new_items: ``dict`` :return dictionary: """ for key, value in new_items.items(): if isinstance(value, dict) and value: base_merge = merge_dict(base_items.get(key, {}), value) base_items[key] = base_merge else: base_items[key] = new_items[key] return base_items def append_if(array, item): """Append an ``item`` to an ``array`` if its not already in it. :param array: ``list`` List object to append to :param item: ``object`` Object to append to the list :returns bool: Flag indicating whether the append happened (True) or not (False) """ if item not in array: array.append(item) return True return False def recursive_list_removal(base_list, purge_list): """Remove items from a list. If base_list and purge_list resolve to the same list in memory, only the first item will be removed due to Python's handling of mutation during iteration. :param base_list: ``list`` List representing base_list entries :param purge_list: ``list`` List of items to remove """ for item in purge_list: for _item in base_list: if item == _item: base_list.pop(base_list.index(item)) # TODO(nrb): this probably needs to be renamed, as it's not really recursive def recursive_dict_removal(inventory, purge_list): """Remove items from a dictionary. Only items in child dictionaries and lists are removed. Dictionary keys can only be deleted at the 3rd level (e.g in inventory['top']['middle']['bottom'], only 'bottom' would be targeted by this function) :param inventory: ``dict`` Dictionary representing the inventory :param purge_list: ``list`` List of items to remove """ for key, value in inventory.items(): if isinstance(value, dict): for child_key, child_value in value.items(): if isinstance(child_value, dict): for item in purge_list: if item in child_value: del(child_value[item]) elif isinstance(child_value, list): recursive_list_removal(child_value, purge_list) elif isinstance(value, list): recursive_list_removal(value, purge_list)