Is there a recursive version of the dict.get() built-in?

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A very common pattern to do this is to use an empty dict as your default:

d.get('foo', {}).get('bar')

If you have more than a couple of keys, you could use reduce (note that in Python 3 reduce must be imported: from functools import reduce) to apply the operation multiple times

reduce(lambda c, k: c.get(k, {}), ['foo', 'bar'], d)

Of course, you should consider wrapping this into a function (or a method):

def recursive_get(d, *keys):
    return reduce(lambda c, k: c.get(k, {}), keys, d)

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