ycleptic.src.dictthings module

Utilities for modifying dictionary entries in the Attribute tree

ycleptic.src.dictthings.special_update(dict1: dict, dict2: dict)[source]

Updates dict1 with values from dict2 in a “special” way so that any values that are list-like are appended rather than overwritten, and dict-like values are updated. For each key:value pair in dict2,

  • if the value is a list and the existing value at key in dict1 is also a list, append the dict2 values to dict1

  • if the value is a dict and the existing value is also a dict, merge them

  • otherwise, overwrite the existing value

Parameters:

  • dict1 (dict) – The dictionary to be updated.

  • dict2 (dict) – The dictionary with values to update dict1.

Returns:

The updated dict1 with values from dict2 merged in.

Return type:

dict