def find_meta_values()

in distill/process/search.py [0:0]

• 7 lines of code
• 5 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

def find_meta_values(key, dict, *, unique: bool = True):
    """
    Uses List Comprehension to list all unique values for the given key in a dict,
    assuming nested dict of dicts with depth = 2, e.g., {k:{k:v, ...}, ...}
    :param key: a dict key to find values for
    :param dict: a nested dictionary of depth 2 (dict of dicts)
    :param unique: (optional, default == True) if False returns all values for the given key
    :return: a list object with values for given key
    """
    value_list = [sub[key] for sub in dict.values() if key in sub]
    if unique == True:
        value_set = set(value_list)
        return list(value_set)
    if unique == False:
        return value_list