Fuzzy dict access

At the time I wrote this little snippet I was often working with dictionaries in python and struggling to remember the exact keys that would be required to access the fields I wanted. This is long before starting this blog and was one of the mini-projects that has helped push me to start typing up the side projects and wonderings that I have.

The premise is that you have some idea of the path to the desired element in the dictionary but not all of it. Given a dictionary, this program should return the first object in the dictionary tree which matches that path.

	def fuzy(obj, path):
	'''
	assumptions
	- The path is in order
	- Once an element of the path is found it shouldn't be ignored
	'''
	if path == []:
	return obj
	if path[0] in obj.keys():
	return fuzy(obj[path[0]], path[1:])
	for k in obj.keys():
	v = fuzy(obj[k], path)
	if v:
	return v

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