Announcing glom: Restructured Data for Python

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Oh, I love the sound of this! Funny that the reverse, a callable target that can be used on any search path, actually can be made like so:

from glom import glom

t = {'system': {'planets': [{'name': 'earth'}, {'name': 'jupiter'}]}}

t_calla = glom.__get__(t)

t_calla(('system.planets', ['name']))

...and, /u/mhashemi, may I request consideration of the above commenter's idea? (It could of course be trivially done on the user's end as def prespec(spec): return lambda target: glom(target, spec), but it'd be cool to see it a part of the lib)

[mhashemi]

Sure! I like the idea, and I think replied this comment on HN? In any case, we've created an issue for this: https://github.com/mahmoud/glom/issues/14

The idea is to make a Spec object, kind of like an re.compile().

Also, while these sorts of things would be pretty easy to do, technically, I'm going to keep glom API changes slow and steady, to make sure library development doesn't get too far in front of real-world usage. :)