Printing multiple values from a dictionary after reading it from a file

Question

I am having trouble coming up with a solution to a program I am writing. I am reading decencies from a pom file after reading them I save them into a dictionary. After saving them into a dictionary I want to output in a specific way. As follows:

My code on how I am parsing the pom file:

for dep in depend:
    infoList = []
    counter += 1
    for child in dep.getchildren():
        infoList.append(child.tag.split('}')[1])
        infoList.append(child.text)

    #list where data is being stored
    dependencyInfo[infoList[1]].update({infoList[2] : infoList[3],infoList[4] : infoList[5]})
                   
#print statement of all the data
print("""%i Dependency where found in %s's pom file.""" % (counter,projectName))
print(dependencyInfo)

The output is

11 Dependency where found in my-application1's pom file.
defaultdict(<class 'dict'>, {'junit': {'artifactId': 'junit', 'version': '3.8.1'}, 'org.hibernate': {'artifactId': 'ejb3-persistence', 'version': '1.0.1.GA'}, 'javax.sql': {'artifactId': 'jdbc-stdext', 'version': '2.0'}, '
javax.transaction': {'artifactId': 'jta', 'version': '1.0.1B'}, 'mysql': {'artifactId': 'mysql-connector-java', 'version': '5.1.14'}, 'slf4j-api': {'groupId': 'org.slf4j', 'type': 'jar'}, 'org.slf4j': {'artifactId': 'slf4j
-simple', 'version': '1.6.1'}})

Now I want to rearrange the data as follows

groupId = junit
artifactId = junit
version = 3.8.1
.
.
groupId = javax.transaction 
artifactId = jta
version = 1.0.1B

Answer 1

You can do this using f-strings :

for groupId, artifact in dependencyInfo.items():
    artifactId = artifact["artifactId"]
    version = artifact["version"]

    print(f"groupId = {groupId}")
    print(f"artifactId = {artifactId}")
    print(f"version = {version}")
    print()

Note that your dependencyInfo has a slight error, this entry: 'slf4j-api': {'groupId': 'org.slf4j', 'type': 'jar'} needs to have the artifactId in the body instead and groupId as the key.

To accommodate for where groupId and artifactId could be switched, in addition to other fields like type , you could use this:

for dependencyId, info in dependencyInfo.items():
    additionalInfo = {}

    groupId = None
    artifactId = None

    for infoName, infoValue in info.items():
        if infoName == "artifactId":
            artifactId = info["artifactId"]
            groupId = dependencyId
        elif infoName == "groupId":
            artifactId = dependencyId
            groupId = info["groupId"]
        else:
            additionalInfo[infoName] = infoValue

    if groupId:
        print(f"groupId = {groupId}")

    if artifactId:
        print(f"artifactId = {artifactId}")

    for infoName, infoValue in additionalInfo.items():
        print(f"{infoName} = {infoValue}")

    print()

Resulting output for your dependencyInfo :

groupId = junit
artifactId = junit
version = 3.8.1

groupId = org.hibernate
artifactId = ejb3-persistence
version = 1.0.1.GA

groupId = javax.sql
artifactId = jdbc-stdext
version = 2.0

groupId = javax.transaction
artifactId = jta
version = 1.0.1B

groupId = mysql
artifactId = mysql-connector-java
version = 5.1.14

groupId = org.slf4j
artifactId = slf4j-api
type = jar

groupId = org.slf4j
artifactId = slf4j-simple
version = 1.6.1

Though this will do unexpected things if neither groupId or artifactId is present, or both are present at the same time in the body.