namespaces

Namespaces Utility Functions for Declarative Typed Argument Parsing.

The namespaces module contains a utility function used for recursively converting argparse.Namespaces to regular Python dicts.

to_dict(namespace)

Converts a nested namespace to a dictionary recursively.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description	Default
namespace	argparse.Namespace	Namespace object to convert.	required

Returns:

Type	Description
Dict[str, Any]	Nested dictionary generated from namespace.

Source code in pydantic_argparse/utils/namespaces.py

def to_dict(namespace: argparse.Namespace) -> Dict[str, Any]:
    """Converts a nested namespace to a dictionary recursively.

    Args:
        namespace (argparse.Namespace): Namespace object to convert.

    Returns:
        Dict[str, Any]: Nested dictionary generated from namespace.
    """
    # Get Dictionary from Namespace Vars
    dictionary = vars(namespace)

    # Loop Through Dictionary
    for key, value in dictionary.items():
        # Check for Namespace Objects
        if isinstance(value, argparse.Namespace):
            # Recurse
            dictionary[key] = to_dict(value)

    # Return
    return dictionary