mahmoud/glom

  pip install glom

Usage: glom [FLAGS] [spec [target]]

Command-line interface to the glom library, providing nested data access and data
restructuring with the power of Python.

Flags:

  --help / -h                     show this help message and exit
  --target-file TARGET_FILE       path to target data source (optional)
  --target-format TARGET_FORMAT
                                  format of the source data (json, python, toml,
                                  or yaml) (defaults to 'json')
  --spec-file SPEC_FILE           path to glom spec definition (optional)
  --spec-format SPEC_FORMAT       format of the glom spec definition (json, python,
                                    python-full) (defaults to 'python')
  --indent INDENT                 number of spaces to indent the result, 0 to disable
                                    pretty-printing (defaults to 2)
  --debug                         interactively debug any errors that come up
  --inspect                       interactively explore the data

>>> data = {'a': {'b': {'c': 'd'}}}
>>> data['a']['b']['c']
'd'
>>> data2 = {'a': {'b': None}}
>>> data2['a']['b']['c']
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not subscriptable

>>> glom(data, 'a.b.c')
'd'
>>> glom(data2, 'a.b.c')
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
PathAccessError: could not access 'c', index 2 in path Path('a', 'b', 'c'), got error: ...