我正在考虑UserDict的一个子类来自动神奇地平键。

class FlatDict(UserDict):
    def __init__(self, *args, separator='.', **kwargs):
        self.separator = separator
        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)

    def __setitem__(self, key, value):
        if isinstance(value, dict):
            for k1, v1 in FlatDict(value, separator=self.separator).items():
                super().__setitem__(f"{key}{self.separator}{k1}", v1)
        else:
            super().__setitem__(key, value)

‌ 优点是键可以动态添加，或者使用标准字典实例化，毫无疑问:

‌

>>> fd = FlatDict(
...    {
...        'person': {
...            'sexe': 'male', 
...            'name': {
...                'first': 'jacques',
...                'last': 'dupond'
...            }
...        }
...    }
... )
>>> fd
{'person.sexe': 'male', 'person.name.first': 'jacques', 'person.name.last': 'dupond'}
>>> fd['person'] = {'name': {'nickname': 'Bob'}}
>>> fd
{'person.sexe': 'male', 'person.name.first': 'jacques', 'person.name.last': 'dupond', 'person.name.nickname': 'Bob'}
>>> fd['person.name'] = {'civility': 'Dr'}
>>> fd
{'person.sexe': 'male', 'person.name.first': 'jacques', 'person.name.last': 'dupond', 'person.name.nickname': 'Bob', 'person.name.civility': 'Dr'}

def flatten(dictionary, prefix = '', separator = '_'):
    out_dict = {}
    if type(dictionary) != dict:
        out_dict[prefix] = dictionary
        return out_dict
    elif dictionary is None:
        return None
    for k in dictionary.keys():
        if prefix:
            prefix_n = prefix + f'{separator}{k}'
        else:
            prefix_n = k
        out_dict.update(flatten_new(dictionary[k], prefix_n))
    return out_dict

输出:

{'a': 1, 'c_a': 2, 'c_b_x': 5, 'c_b_y': 10, 'd': [1, 2, 3]}

基本上与平铺嵌套列表的方法相同，您只需要做额外的工作，按键/值迭代字典，为新字典创建新键，并在最后一步创建字典。

import collections

def flatten(d, parent_key='', sep='_'):
    items = []
    for k, v in d.items():
        new_key = parent_key + sep + k if parent_key else k
        if isinstance(v, collections.MutableMapping):
            items.extend(flatten(v, new_key, sep=sep).items())
        else:
            items.append((new_key, v))
    return dict(items)

>>> flatten({'a': 1, 'c': {'a': 2, 'b': {'x': 5, 'y' : 10}}, 'd': [1, 2, 3]})
{'a': 1, 'c_a': 2, 'c_b_x': 5, 'd': [1, 2, 3], 'c_b_y': 10}

对于Python >= 3.3，将导入更改为from collections。abc导入MutableMapping以避免弃用警告和更改集合。MutableMapping变成MutableMapping。

我总是喜欢通过.items()访问字典对象，所以为了平抑字典，我使用下面的递归生成器flat_items(d)。如果你想再次使用dict，只需像这样简单地包装它:flat = dict(flat_items(d))

def flat_items(d, key_separator='.'):
    """
    Flattens the dictionary containing other dictionaries like here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6027558/flatten-nested-python-dictionaries-compressing-keys

    >>> example = {'a': 1, 'c': {'a': 2, 'b': {'x': 5, 'y' : 10}}, 'd': [1, 2, 3]}
    >>> flat = dict(flat_items(example, key_separator='_'))
    >>> assert flat['c_b_y'] == 10
    """
    for k, v in d.items():
        if type(v) is dict:
            for k1, v1 in flat_items(v, key_separator=key_separator):
                yield key_separator.join((k, k1)), v1
        else:
            yield k, v

上面的答案真的很管用。我只是想加上我写的unflatten函数:

def unflatten(d):
    ud = {}
    for k, v in d.items():
        context = ud
        for sub_key in k.split('_')[:-1]:
            if sub_key not in context:
                context[sub_key] = {}
            context = context[sub_key]
        context[k.split('_')[-1]] = v
    return ud

注意:这并没有解释键中已经存在的'_'，就像扁平化的对应物一样。

def flatten_nested_dict(_dict, _str=''):
    '''
    recursive function to flatten a nested dictionary json
    '''
    ret_dict = {}
    for k, v in _dict.items():
        if isinstance(v, dict):
            ret_dict.update(flatten_nested_dict(v, _str = '_'.join([_str, k]).strip('_')))
        elif isinstance(v, list):
            for index, item in enumerate(v):
                if isinstance(item, dict):
                    ret_dict.update(flatten_nested_dict(item,  _str= '_'.join([_str, k, str(index)]).strip('_')))
                else:
                    ret_dict['_'.join([_str, k, str(index)]).strip('_')] = item
        else:
            ret_dict['_'.join([_str, k]).strip('_')] = v
    return ret_dict