https://github.com/bernii/querystring-parser

QueryString parser for Python/Django that correctly handles nested dictionaries
https://github.com/bernii/querystring-parser

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QueryString parser for Python/Django that correctly handles nested dictionaries

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/bernii/querystring-parser
• Owner: bernii
• License: mit
• Created: 2011-05-12T23:06:22.000Z (over 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-02-29T21:44:01.000Z (7 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-14T06:38:35.721Z (5 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Homepage: http://extensa.pl
• Size: 53.7 KB
• Stars: 137
• Watchers: 11
• Forks: 42
• Open Issues: 6
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  • Readme: README.rst
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
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querystring-parser

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This repository hosts the query string parser for Python/Django projects that correctly creates nested dictionaries from sent form/querystring data.

When to use it?

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Lets say you have some textfields on your webpage that you wish to get as dictionary on the backend. The querystring could look like:

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  section[1]['words'][2]=a&section[0]['words'][2]=a&section[0]['words'][2]=b

Standard django REQUEST (QueryDict) variable will contain:

::

  

As you see it doesn't really convert it to dict. Instead of elegant dictionary you have a string called "section[1]['words'][2]" and "section[0]['words'][2]" and if you want to do something with it, you'll need to parse it (sic!).

When using querystring-parser the output will look like:

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  {u'section': {0: {u'words': {2: [u'a', u'b']}}, 1: {u'words': {2: u'a'}}}}

Tadam! Everything is much simpler and more beautiful now :)

Efficiency:

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Test made using timeit show that in most cases speed of created library is similar to standard Django QueryDict parsing speed. For query string containing multidimensional complicated arrays  querystring-parser is significantly slower. This is totally understandable as created library creates nested dictionaries in contrary to standard Django function which only tokenizes data. You can see results below.

Edit: Actually parsing is done by urlparse.parse_qs so I've added it to tests.

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  Test string nr  querystring-parser     Django QueryDict       parse_qs

  0               2.75077319145          3.44334220886          0.582501888275

  Test string nr  querystring-parser     Django QueryDict       parse_qs

  1               10.1889920235          10.2983090878          2.08930182457

  Test string nr  querystring-parser     Django QueryDict       parse_qs

  2               0.613747119904         1.21649289131          0.283004999161

  Test string nr  querystring-parser     Django QueryDict       parse_qs

  3               0.107316017151         0.459388017654         0.0687718391418

  Test string nr  querystring-parser     Django QueryDict       parse_qs

  4               0.00291299819946       0.169251918793         0.0170118808746

Test #1 Is most interesting as is contains nested dictionaries in query string.

Installation:

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Install using pip.

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  pip install querystring-parser

  

How to use:

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Just add it to your Django project and start using it.  

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  from querystring_parser import parser

  post_dict = parser.parse(request.POST.urlencode())

License:

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* MIT License