polyfamily_tree

Python package for structuredly managing directional relationship between objects.

Though it uses allegory of 'family tree', it doesn't implement 'tree data structure'.
Alternatively, relationship in default is drawn by organizing Directed Acyclic Graph(DAG).
This means that there is a loop-less hierarchy in between members.
Not like tree, member of this data structure can have multiple parents
thus the package is named 'poly'family

Graph organizing members is not a concrete object.
All participants store its vicinity relationship in itself. By default relationship is build bidirectional - parent knows about children while
children knows about parent. But this can be manually tweaked using
lower level methods like fm_append fm_remove.

Methods use prefix 'fm_' to be distinguished.

Installation

Use pip to install the package.
pip install polyfamily_tree

Usage

from polyfamily_tree import *    
   
   
class MyMember(FamilyMember): # inherit `FamilyMember`  
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()    # vital for initiating required attributes  
        # your __init__ code below
        ...
        
a, b = MyMember(), MyMember()  
a.fm_append_member(parent=a, child=b) # build relationship
print(b.fm_get_parents())

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.
https://github.com/grasshopperTrainer/polyfamily_tree

Alternative contect

For any questions :
grasshoppertrainer@gmail.com

Licence

MIT