Introduction

The is a simplification and redesign of the orderedbunch package from tinytools. The package ontains an OrderedBunch object class with associated bunchify/unbunchify methods, similar to other bunch implementations but built off an OrderedDict with ipython table-complete overloaded to the data memebers. It removes the ordered_dictionarify function that is in tinytools and and leaves the development of the nested dictionaries to external code. The motivation is that it is quite complicated to infer what the user is wanting - and therefore error prone.

IPython has also recently changed its handling of the __dir__ method and it is unclear under which cases it is respected for tab completion or not. It seems, though, that for ipython 6, it is possible to remove mothods from the tab completion through the IPCompleter.* configuration options.

Installing

pip install orderedbunch

Import

import orderedbunch

Quick Start

from orderedbunch import OrderedBunch

## OrderedBunch
from collections import OrderedDict

# Create an OrderedBunch from and return it to an OrderedDict
od = OrderedDict({'a':1,'b':2,'c':{'aa':1.23,'bb':'string'}})
ob = orderedbunch.ordered_bunchify(od)
ob.a          # Explore the OrderdBunch with tab complete
ob['a']       # Equivalent to above
ob.c.bb       # orderd_bunchify is recursive on nested Dict objects
ob['c']['bb'] # Equivalent to above
od2 = tt.bunch.ordered_unbunchify(ob)