How can I make this function faster?

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RE: How can I make this function faster? - ichabod801 - Jun-29-2018

I can't think of an efficient way to handle that. You could do:

container = document
sub_keys = key.split('.')
for sub_key in sub_keys[:-1]:
    container = container[sub_key]
container[sub_keys[-1]] = value

but I can't see that being very efficient.