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Utility functions for interacting with data

getter

getter(x, k: str, *args)

get an attribute (from an object) or key (from a dict-like object)

getter(x, k) raise KeyError if k not present

getter(x, k, default) return default if k not present

This is a convenience function that allows you to interact the same with an object or a dictionary

Parameters

x : object, dict Item to get attribute from k : str Key or attribute name default : optional Default value if k not present

Returns

val : object Associated value

remap

remap(x, mapping: dict)

Flatten a nested dictionary/object according to a specified name mapping.

Parameters

x : object, dict An object or dict which can be treated as a nested dictionary, where attributes can be accessed as: attr = x.a.b['key_name']['other_Name'].d Indexing list values is not implemented, e.g.: x.a.b[3].d['key_name'] mapping : dict Nested dictionary specifying the mapping. ONLY values specified in the mapping will be returned. For example:

.. code-block:: python

{'a': { 'b': { 'c': 'new_name' } }

could flatten x.a.b.c or x.a['b']['c'] to x['new_name']

Returns

flat : OrderedDict A flattened ordered dictionary of values

get_valid_filename

get_valid_filename(s)

Return the given string converted to a string that can be used for a clean filename. Remove leading and trailing spaces; convert other spaces to underscores; and remove anything that is not an alphanumeric, dash, underscore, or dot.

.. code-block:: python

>>> from whylogs.util.data import get_valid_filename >>> get_valid_filename(" Background of tim's 8/1/2019 party!.jpg ")

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