Unflatten Keys

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Domain

Python

Difficulty

medium

Problem

Config files arrive as flat dicts with dot-notation keys like 'database.host.port' and need to be expanded before use. Convert the flat dict into a nested dict structure where each dot segment becomes a level of nesting.

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