import collections class ReplicationGraph(collections.MutableMapping): """ Structure to hold replicated data relation graph """ def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): self.store = dict() self.update(dict(*args, **kwargs)) # use the free update to set keys def __getitem__(self, key): return self.store[self.__keytransform__(key)] def __setitem__(self, key, value): self.store[self.__keytransform__(key)] = value def __delitem__(self, key): del self.store[self.__keytransform__(key)] def __iter__(self): return iter(self.store) def __len__(self): return len(self.store) def __keytransform__(self, key): return key