Add Command class and stream_has_colours

[gmatteo]

Hi Shyue, could you release a new minor version of monty and update the requirement in pymatgen? Thanks in advance

[shyuep]

Hi Matteo, I don't think the command class belongs in shutil. Probably subprocess or even os?

Also, what's the use case for MongoDict? Just a note that there is a package called mongomock that does mocking of a Mongo DB.

[gmatteo]

Hi Shyue,

I've moved Command to monty.subprocess.

MongoDict is a dict-like object that allows one to access the entries in a nested dict as attributes.
Entries (attributes) cannot be modified. It also provides Ipython tab completion hence this object
is particularly useful if you need to analyze a nested dict interactively (e.g. documents
extracted from a MongoDB database) or if you have to access a key in one of the nested dict
Example:

foo = {"k1": {"k2": {"k3": 3}}}
m = MongoDict(foo)

Now one can access foo["k1"]["k2"]["k3"] with the much simpler notation
m.k1.k2.k3

I decided to call it MongoDict, just to remind me that the keys in the dictionary must be strings
but the object is not directly related to the pymongo API

Matteo

[computron]

Regarding mongodict there may be existing solutions, eg
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/easydict/

[shyuep]

 I will merge Matteo’s contributions. I think this is easy enough to implement and include in monty without relying on an outside solution.

Shyue Ping

On October 26, 2014 at 07:48:48, Anubhav Jain (notifications@github.com) wrote:

Regarding mongodict there may be existing solutions, eg
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/easydict/

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