Welcome to AutoDict’s documentation!

AutoDict is a Python dictionary that automatically adds children dictionaries as necessary. JSONAutoDict wraps a file and AutoDict to automatically save when exiting a context. Files use json based serialization and deserialization.

The latest version is AutoDict 1.1.0, released 2021-10-22. It is supported on:

• Python versions 3.7 through 3.10.

Classes

Dictionary that automatically adds children dictionaries as necessary

class AutoDict

Bases: dict

Dictionary that automatically adds children dictionaries as necessary

contains(*keys: object) → bool

Check for the presence of keys in dictionary

Supply multiple keys to check children. Only descends other AutoDicts

contains(“level0”, “level1”, key) will return True when AutoDict is structured as follows: {“level0”: {“level1”: {“key”: _ }}}

Parameters

keys – one or more keys to check for (cascading levels)

Returns

True when key(s) exist