简单的函数来平嵌套字典。对于Python 3，用.items()替换.iteritems()

def flatten_dict(init_dict):
    res_dict = {}
    if type(init_dict) is not dict:
        return res_dict

    for k, v in init_dict.iteritems():
        if type(v) == dict:
            res_dict.update(flatten_dict(v))
        else:
            res_dict[k] = v

    return res_dict

这个想法/要求是: 获取不保留父键的平面字典。

用法示例:

dd = {'a': 3, 
      'b': {'c': 4, 'd': 5}, 
      'e': {'f': 
                 {'g': 1, 'h': 2}
           }, 
      'i': 9,
     }

flatten_dict(dd)

>> {'a': 3, 'c': 4, 'd': 5, 'g': 1, 'h': 2, 'i': 9}

保留父密钥也很简单。

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。

这并不局限于字典，而是实现.items()的每个映射类型。进一步列表更快，因为它避免了if条件。尽管如此，功劳还是归于伊姆兰:

def flatten(d, parent_key=''):
    items = []
    for k, v in d.items():
        try:
            items.extend(flatten(v, '%s%s_' % (parent_key, k)).items())
        except AttributeError:
            items.append(('%s%s' % (parent_key, k), v))
    return dict(items)

def flatten(unflattened_dict, separator='_'):
    flattened_dict = {}

    for k, v in unflattened_dict.items():
        if isinstance(v, dict):
            sub_flattened_dict = flatten(v, separator)
            for k2, v2 in sub_flattened_dict.items():
                flattened_dict[k + separator + k2] = v2
        else:
            flattened_dict[k] = v

    return flattened_dict

在Python3.5中提供功能和性能的解决方案如何?

from functools import reduce


def _reducer(items, key, val, pref):
    if isinstance(val, dict):
        return {**items, **flatten(val, pref + key)}
    else:
        return {**items, pref + key: val}

def flatten(d, pref=''):
    return(reduce(
        lambda new_d, kv: _reducer(new_d, *kv, pref), 
        d.items(), 
        {}
    ))

这是更有表现力的:

def flatten(d, pref=''):
    return(reduce(
        lambda new_d, kv: \
            isinstance(kv[1], dict) and \
            {**new_d, **flatten(kv[1], pref + kv[0])} or \
            {**new_d, pref + kv[0]: kv[1]}, 
        d.items(), 
        {}
    ))

在使用:

my_obj = {'a': 1, 'c': {'a': 2, 'b': {'x': 5, 'y': 10}}, 'd': [1, 2, 3]}

print(flatten(my_obj)) 
# {'d': [1, 2, 3], 'cby': 10, 'cbx': 5, 'ca': 2, 'a': 1}