Recursively convert python object graph to dictionary

Question

I\'m trying to convert the data from a simple object graph into a dictionary. I don\'t need type information or methods and I don\'t need to be able to convert it back to an

Answer 1

Looked at all solutions, and @hbristow's answer was closest to what I was looking for. Added enum.Enum handling since this was causing a RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded error and reordered objects with __slots__ to have precedence of objects defining __dict__.

def todict(obj):
  """
  Recursively convert a Python object graph to sequences (lists)
  and mappings (dicts) of primitives (bool, int, float, string, ...)
  """
  if isinstance(obj, str):
    return obj
  elif isinstance(obj, enum.Enum):
    return str(obj)
  elif isinstance(obj, dict):
    return dict((key, todict(val)) for key, val in obj.items())
  elif isinstance(obj, collections.Iterable):
    return [todict(val) for val in obj]
  elif hasattr(obj, '__slots__'):
    return todict(dict((name, getattr(obj, name)) for name in getattr(obj, '__slots__')))
  elif hasattr(obj, '__dict__'):
    return todict(vars(obj))
  return obj