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August 25, 2021 22:41
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Dumb, probably unnecessary, helper for looking up a value from a dict for known permutations of a key, or fallback keys. Rather than `dict.get('Key', dict.get('KEY'))` use `get_first(dict, 'Key', 'KEY')` - save yourself 3 keystrokes in the case of 2 keys, more as the # of keys grow! :wow: /s
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from typing import Any, Dict, Optional | |
def get_first(d: Dict[Any, Any], *keys: Any) -> Optional[Any]: | |
"""Return the first value from d that is not None utilizing the *keys as key lookups. | |
If no value can be found for any key, returns None. | |
Example: | |
>>> d = { | |
'tesT': 1, | |
'TeST': 2, | |
'TEST': 3 | |
} | |
>>> get_first(d, 'key', 'test', 'TEST', 'tesT') | |
3 | |
>>> get_first(d, 1, 2, 3) | |
>>> | |
""" | |
for k in keys: | |
val = d.get(k) | |
if val is not None: | |
return val |
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