Merge pull request #419 from seperman/dev

6.5.0

README.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# DeepDiff v 6.4.1
+# DeepDiff v 6.5.0
 
 ![Downloads](https://img.shields.io/pypi/dm/deepdiff.svg?style=flat)
 ![Python Versions](https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/deepdiff.svg?style=flat)
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 Tested on Python 3.7+ and PyPy3.
 
-- **[Documentation](https://zepworks.com/deepdiff/6.4.1/)**
+- **[Documentation](https://zepworks.com/deepdiff/6.5.0/)**
 
 ## What is new?
 
@@ -82,11 +82,11 @@ Thank you!
 
 How to cite this library (APA style):
 
-    Dehpour, S. (2023). DeepDiff (Version 6.4.1) [Software]. Available from https://github.com/seperman/deepdiff.
+    Dehpour, S. (2023). DeepDiff (Version 6.5.0) [Software]. Available from https://github.com/seperman/deepdiff.
 
 How to cite this library (Chicago style):
 
-    Dehpour, Sep. 2023. DeepDiff (version 6.4.1).
+    Dehpour, Sep. 2023. DeepDiff (version 6.5.0).
 
 # Authors
 

deepdiff/__init__.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 """This module offers the DeepDiff, DeepSearch, grep, Delta and DeepHash classes."""
 # flake8: noqa
-__version__ = '6.4.1'
+__version__ = '6.5.0'
 import logging
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
@@ -11,4 +11,4 @@
 from .search import DeepSearch, grep
 from .deephash import DeepHash
 from .delta import Delta
-from .path import extract
+from .path import extract, parse_path

deepdiff/path.py

@@ -185,3 +185,41 @@ def extract(obj, path):
     """
     elements = _path_to_elements(path, root_element=None)
     return _get_nested_obj(obj, elements)
+
+
+def parse_path(path, root_element=DEFAULT_FIRST_ELEMENT, include_actions=False):
+    """
+    Parse a path to a format that is machine readable
+
+    **Parameters**
+
+    path : A string
+    The path string such as "root[1][2]['age']"
+
+    root_element: string, default='root'
+        What the root is called in the path.
+
+    include_actions: boolean, default=False
+        If True, we return the action required to retrieve the item at each element of the path.  
+
+    **Examples**
+
+        >>> from deepdiff import parse_path
+        >>> parse_path("root[1][2]['age']")
+        [1, 2, 'age']
+        >>> parse_path("root[1][2]['age']", include_actions=True)
+        [{'element': 1, 'action': 'GET'}, {'element': 2, 'action': 'GET'}, {'element': 'age', 'action': 'GET'}]
+        >>>
+        >>> parse_path("root['joe'].age")
+        ['joe', 'age']
+        >>> parse_path("root['joe'].age", include_actions=True)
+        [{'element': 'joe', 'action': 'GET'}, {'element': 'age', 'action': 'GETATTR'}]
+
+    """
+
+    result = _path_to_elements(path, root_element=root_element)
+    result = iter(result)
+    next(result)  # We don't want the root item
+    if include_actions is False:
+        return [i[0] for i in result]
+    return [{'element': i[0], 'action': i[1]} for i in result]

docs/conf.py

@@ -61,9 +61,9 @@
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = '6.4.1'
+version = '6.5.0'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '6.4.1'
+release = '6.5.0'
 
 load_dotenv(override=True)
 DOC_VERSION = os.environ.get('DOC_VERSION', version)

docs/faq.rst

@@ -88,4 +88,23 @@ In order to serialize DeepDiff results into json, use to_json()
     >>> diff.to_json()
     '{"type_changes": {"root": {"old_type": "int", "new_type": "str", "old_value": 1, "new_value": "a"}}}'
 
+
+Q: How do I parse DeepDiff result paths?
+----------------------------------------
+
+**Answer**
+
+Use parse_path:
+
+    >>> from deepdiff import parse_path
+    >>> parse_path("root[1][2]['age']")
+    [1, 2, 'age']
+    >>> parse_path("root[1][2]['age']", include_actions=True)
+    [{'element': 1, 'action': 'GET'}, {'element': 2, 'action': 'GET'}, {'element': 'age', 'action': 'GET'}]
+    >>>
+    >>> parse_path("root['joe'].age")
+    ['joe', 'age']
+    >>> parse_path("root['joe'].age", include_actions=True)
+    [{'element': 'joe', 'action': 'GET'}, {'element': 'age', 'action': 'GETATTR'}]
+
 Back to :doc:`/index`

docs/index.rst

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
    contain the root `toctree` directive.
 
 
-DeepDiff 6.4.1 documentation!
+DeepDiff 6.5.0 documentation!
 =============================
 
 *******

setup.cfg

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 6.4.1
+current_version = 6.5.0
 commit = True
 tag = True
 tag_name = {new_version}

setup.py

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 if os.environ.get('USER', '') == 'vagrant':
     del os.link
 
-version = '6.4.1'
+version = '6.5.0'
 
 
 def get_reqs(filename):

tests/test_path.py

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import pytest
-from deepdiff.path import _path_to_elements, GET, GETATTR, extract
+from deepdiff.path import _path_to_elements, GET, GETATTR, extract, parse_path
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize('path, expected', [
@@ -32,3 +32,14 @@ def test_path_to_elements(path, expected):
 def test_get_item(obj, path, expected):
     result = extract(obj, path)
     assert expected == result
+
+
+def test_parse_path():
+    result = parse_path("root[1][2]['age']")
+    assert [1, 2, 'age'] == result
+    result2 = parse_path("root[1][2]['age']", include_actions=True)
+    assert [{'element': 1, 'action': 'GET'}, {'element': 2, 'action': 'GET'}, {'element': 'age', 'action': 'GET'}] == result2
+    result3 = parse_path("root['joe'].age")
+    assert ['joe', 'age'] == result3
+    result4 = parse_path("root['joe'].age", include_actions=True)
+    assert [{'element': 'joe', 'action': 'GET'}, {'element': 'age', 'action': 'GETATTR'}] == result4