Python : Display A Dict Of Dicts Using A Ui Tree For The Keys And Any Other Widget For The Values

I have three dicts, one providing a list of all the available options, and two providing a subset of choices (one set for defaults and one for user choices). I get the three dicts

Solution 1:

I've modified John Gaines Jr.'s answer to handle lists. I didn't need editing or the Taglist for what I'm doing so I removed them. They could certainly be added back. Since lists can introduce duplication of keys, I replaced the keys with UUIDs while still showing the original key as text on the left side of the treeview.

UPDATE 07/18/2021 - I've added editing as found in the first answer. Alas my Tk layout skills aren't too impressive.

# https://gist.github.com/wware/a1d90a3ca3cbef31ed3fbb7002fd1318import json
import uuid
import Tkinter as tk
import ttk
from pprint import pprint as pprint


# opt_name: (from_, to, increment)
IntOptions = {
    'age': (1.0, 200.0, 1.0),
}


defclose_ed(parent, edwin):
    parent.focus_set()
    edwin.destroy()


defset_cell(edwin, w, tvar):
    value = tvar.get()
    w.item(w.focus(), values=(value,))
    close_ed(w, edwin)


defedit_cell(e):
    w = e.widget
    if w andlen(w.item(w.focus(), 'values')) > 0:
        edwin = tk.Toplevel(e.widget)
        edwin.protocol("WM_DELETE_WINDOW", lambda: close_ed(w, edwin))
        edwin.wait_visibility()
        edwin.grab_set()
        edwin.overrideredirect(1)
        opt_name = w.focus()
        (x, y, width, height) = w.bbox(opt_name, 'Values')
        edwin.geometry('%dx%d+%d+%d' % (width, height, x/4, y))
        value = w.item(opt_name, 'values')[0]
        tvar = tk.StringVar()
        tvar.set(str(value))
        ed = Noneif opt_name in IntOptions:
            constraints = IntOptions[opt_name]
            ed = tk.Spinbox(edwin, from_=constraints[0], to=constraints[1],
                increment=constraints[2], textvariable=tvar)
        else:
            ed = tk.Entry(edwin, textvariable=tvar)
        if ed:
            ed.config(background='LightYellow')
            #ed.grid(column=0, row=0, sticky=(tk.N, tk.S, tk.W, tk.E))
            ed.pack()
            ed.focus_set()
        edwin.bind('<Return>', lambda e: set_cell(edwin, w, tvar))
        edwin.bind('<Escape>', lambda e: close_ed(w, edwin))

defJSONTree(Tree, Parent, Dictionary):
    for key in Dictionary :
        uid = uuid.uuid4()
        ifisinstance(Dictionary[key], dict):
            Tree.insert(Parent, 'end', uid, text=key)
            JSONTree(Tree, uid, Dictionary[key])
        elifisinstance(Dictionary[key], list):
            Tree.insert(Parent, 'end', uid, text=key + '[]')
            JSONTree(Tree,
                     uid,
                     dict([(i, x) for i, x inenumerate(Dictionary[key])]))
        else:
            value = Dictionary[key]
            ifisinstance(value, str) orisinstance(value, unicode):
                value = value.replace(' ', '_')
            Tree.insert(Parent, 'end', uid, text=key, value=value)

if __name__ == "__main__" :
    # Setup the root UI
    root = tk.Tk()
    root.title("JSON editor")
    root.columnconfigure(0, weight=1)
    root.rowconfigure(0, weight=1)

    # Setup Data
    Data = {
        "firstName": "John",
        "lastName": "Smith",
        "gender": "male",
        "age": 32,
        "address": {
            "streetAddress": "21 2nd Street",
            "city": "New York",
            "state": "NY",
            "postalCode": "10021"},
        "phoneNumbers": [
            {"type": "home", "number": "212 555-1234" },
            {"type": "fax",
             "number": "646 555-4567",
             "alphabet": [
                "abc",
                "def",
                "ghi"]
            }
        ]}

    # Setup the Frames
    TreeFrame = ttk.Frame(root, padding="3")
    TreeFrame.grid(row=0, column=0, sticky=tk.NSEW)

    # Setup the Tree
    tree = ttk.Treeview(TreeFrame, columns=('Values'))
    tree.column('Values', width=100, anchor='center')
    tree.heading('Values', text='Values')
    tree.bind('<Double-1>', edit_cell)
    tree.bind('<Return>', edit_cell)
    JSONTree(tree, '', Data)
    tree.pack(fill=tk.BOTH, expand=1)

    # Limit windows minimum dimensions
    root.update_idletasks()
    root.minsize(root.winfo_reqwidth(), root.winfo_reqheight())
    root.mainloop()

Solution 2:

OK, so it's not really pretty, nor would I feel very good about putting code like this into production, but it does work. To make it more sane and production quality, I'd probably make JSONTree a class with all this code wrapped up into methods. This would allow some simplification and cleanup of the code and a little less passing around of objects to event handlers.

import json
import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import ttk
from pprint import pprint as pprint

# opt_name: (from_, to, increment)
IntOptions = {
    'age': (1.0, 200.0, 1.0),
}

defclose_ed(parent, edwin):
    parent.focus_set()
    edwin.destroy()

defset_cell(edwin, w, tvar):
    value = tvar.get()
    w.item(w.focus(), values=(value,))
    close_ed(w, edwin)

defedit_cell(e):
    w = e.widget
    if w andlen(w.item(w.focus(), 'values')) > 0:
        edwin = tk.Toplevel(e.widget)
        edwin.protocol("WM_DELETE_WINDOW", lambda: close_ed(w, edwin))
        edwin.grab_set()
        edwin.overrideredirect(1)
        opt_name = w.focus()
        (x, y, width, height) = w.bbox(opt_name, 'Values')
        edwin.geometry('%dx%d+%d+%d' % (width, height, w.winfo_rootx() + x, w.winfo_rooty() + y))
        value = w.item(opt_name, 'values')[0]
        tvar = tk.StringVar()
        tvar.set(str(value))
        ed = Noneif opt_name in IntOptions:
            constraints = IntOptions[opt_name]
            ed = tk.Spinbox(edwin, from_=constraints[0], to=constraints[1],
                increment=constraints[2], textvariable=tvar)
        else:
            ed = tk.Entry(edwin, textvariable=tvar)
        if ed:
            ed.config(background='LightYellow')
            #ed.grid(column=0, row=0, sticky=(tk.N, tk.S, tk.W, tk.E))
            ed.pack()
            ed.focus_set()
        edwin.bind('<Return>', lambda e: set_cell(edwin, w, tvar))
        edwin.bind('<Escape>', lambda e: close_ed(w, edwin))

defJSONTree(Tree, Parent, Dictionery, TagList=[]):
    for key in Dictionery :
        ifisinstance(Dictionery[key], dict):
            Tree.insert(Parent, 'end', key, text=key)
            TagList.append(key)
            JSONTree(Tree, key, Dictionery[key], TagList)
            pprint(TagList)
        elifisinstance(Dictionery[key], list):
            Tree.insert(Parent, 'end', key, text=key) # Still working on thiselse:
            Tree.insert(Parent, 'end', key, text=key, value=Dictionery[key])

if __name__ == "__main__" :
    # Setup the root UI
    root = tk.Tk()
    root.title("JSON editor")
    root.columnconfigure(0, weight=1)
    root.rowconfigure(0, weight=1)
    # Setup Data
    Data = {
        "firstName": "John",
        "lastName": "Smith",
        "gender": "man",
        "age": 32,
        "address": {
            "streetAddress": "21 2nd Street",
            "city": "New York",
            "state": "NY",
            "postalCode": "10021"},
        "phoneNumbers": [
            { "type": "home", "number": "212 555-1234" },
            { "type": "fax", "number": "646 555-4567" },
        ]}
    # Setup the Frames
    TreeFrame = ttk.Frame(root, padding="3")
    TreeFrame.grid(row=0, column=0, sticky=tk.NSEW)
    # Setup the Tree
    tree = ttk.Treeview(TreeFrame, columns=('Values'))
    tree.column('Values', width=100, anchor='center')
    tree.heading('Values', text='Values')
    tree.bind('<Double-1>', edit_cell)
    tree.bind('<Return>', edit_cell)
    JSONTree(tree, '', Data)
    tree.pack(fill=tk.BOTH, expand=1)
    # Limit windows minimum dimensions
    root.update_idletasks()
    root.minsize(root.winfo_reqwidth(), root.winfo_reqheight())
    root.mainloop()