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		NeutralForest 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pyrefly - A faster Python type checker written in ... For maximum safety, I would write: `if bar.get("baz", {}).get("qux") is not None: ...`

nikisweeting 10 months ago [–]

any more than 2 levels deep of this pattern and I reach for python-benedict

NeutralForest 10 months ago | [–]

Nice, I didn't know about that lib! Usually if I have very nested content I recursively parse it and I'll have some business logic in the function to handle cases here and there. Or I'll have a validation library like Pydantic.

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