Multiindex is a container created along the lines of C++ boost::multi_index. Although similar but many aspects/interfaces in this container will be different from boost's version.
The basic premise for having multi_index container is to have access to the object based on its different properties, just like accessing a row from a SQL table based on different column value.
import multiindex as mi
class Employee(object):
def __init__(self, emp_id, name, contact_number, department):
self.emp_id = emp_id
self.name = name
self.contact_number = contact_number
self.department = department
def __str__(self):
return '{},{},{},{}'.format(self.emp_id, self.name, self.contact_number, self.department)
emp_container = mi.MultiIndexContainer(mi.HashedUnique('emp_id'),
mi.HashedNonUnique('name'),
mi.HashedUnique('contact_number'),
mi.HashedNonUnique('department'))
emp_container.insert(Employee(1234, 'Bret Hart', 5678, 'HR'))
emp_container.insert(Employee(1235, 'Steve Austin', 3343431, 'Sales'))
emp_container.insert(Employee(1236, 'Hulk Hogan', 892784, 'Marketing'))
emp_container.insert(Employee(1237, 'Triple H', 937261, 'HR'))
print(emp_container.get('emp_id', 1235))
print(emp_container.get('contact_number', 937261))
for emp in emp_container.get('department', 'HR'):
print(emp)Above will generate following output:
1235,Steve Austin,3343431,Sales 1237,Triple H,937261,HR 1234,Bret Hart,5678,HR 1237,Triple H,937261,HR
In addition to get API, there is alternate interface to get the object from the multiindex container, using get_by_(index_name), e.g check below code:
print(mi.get_by_emp_id(1234).first_name)
print(mi.get_by_first_name('Shawn').emp_id)
print(mi.get_by_last_name('Hart').first_name)Above will generate following output:
Shawn 1234 Bret
pip install multiindex
- [ ] Ordered index is based on OrderedDict, therefore order indexes based on the insertion order which is not quite
- useful and is not same as boost::ordered_unique/ ordered_non_unique. To have similar behaviour, SortedDict will be required, which can be used from sortedcontainers package.
- [ ] Make package pickable.
- [ ] Change test cases to property based test cases, most probably by using hypothesis.