sdvgallardo / multi-val-dict

A multi-value dictionary

multi-val-dict

A multi-value dictionary

This is a command line program written in Python. It stores a multi-value dictionary in memory. All keys and members are strings. It can treat inputs "in quotes" as one string.

Commands

It supports the following commands:

• KEYS, MEMBERS, ADD, REMOVE, REMOVEALL, CLEAR, KEYEXISTS, MEMBEREXISTS, ALLMEMBERS, and ITEMS

In addition, I have added support for:

• HELP -- Lists all supported commands
• QUIT -- Exits the program and prints out the final results of the dictionary

Further information can be found in the Documentation folder.

Running

The commands in this section are intended for a Linux-based system. I use the Linux subsystem for Windows.

Make sure your version of Python is updated to Python 3.10. You may run into interpretation errors if you attempt to run the program with an earlier version.

To begin, clone a copy of this repo to your machine:

git clone https://github.com/sdvgallardo/multi-val-dict.git

Move to the folder you just cloned:

cd multi-val-dict

Then, execute the program by running it with Python 3:

python3 mvd.py

Then enter your desired commands, adding members to the multi-value dictionary and manipulating it as desired.

When finished, enter QUIT at the prompt, your final dictionary will be provided and the program will cease operation. Any members entered in the dictionary will be lost.

Testing

A file of tests has been included.

To run tests, make sure Pytest has been installed:

pip3 install pytest

Then execute the tests by running them with Pytest:

pytest tests.py

There are 11 tests written with a total of 25 assertions, testing various pieces of the multi-value dictionary program.