Inventree Python API: How to list all part categories

See our previous post Inventree Python API: Minimal API connect example using YAML config for our method of creating the api object using a YAML config file!

from inventree.part import PartCategory

all_categories = PartCategory.list(api)

# Dict of part categories by name
# (e.g. 'OpAmps')
part_categories_by_name = {
    category["name"]: category
    for category in all_categories
}
# Dict of part categories by public key (e.g. 7)
part_categories_by_pk = {
    category.pk: category
    for category in all_categories
}
# Dict of part categories by hierarchical path
# (e.g. 'Electronics-Components/ICs/OpAmps')
part_categories_by_pathstring = {
    category.pathstring: category
    for category in all_categories
}

Note that this code by itself does not take into account the hierarchy of the categories.

Example output

part_categories_by_name:

{'Elektronik-Komponenten': <inventree.part.PartCategory at 0x7fd735125510>,
 'ICs': <inventree.part.PartCategory at 0x7fd7356d1720>,
 'OpAmps': <inventree.part.PartCategory at 0x7fd735ead4e0>}

part_categories_by_pk:

{1: <inventree.part.PartCategory at 0x7fd7346b5db0>,
 2: <inventree.part.PartCategory at 0x7fd73438aa10>,
 3: <inventree.part.PartCategory at 0x7fd727325b40>}

part_categories_by_pathstring:

{'Elektronik-Komponenten': <inventree.part.PartCategory at 0x7fd727bd3040>,
 'Elektronik-Komponenten/ICs': <inventree.part.PartCategory at 0x7fd727bd1db0>,
 'Elektronik-Komponenten/ICs/OpAmps': <inventree.part.PartCategory at 0x7fd727bd1060>}