astronomy-types 2.0.0

Type hints for Python astronomy projects

This project is intended to be used as a type hinting system for a related project, practical_astronomy, and has been developed in conjunction with that project. It may be useful for other projects as well.

It is a defined vocabulary of commonly used astronomical terms represented in code.

It felt plausible that it would be useful in other projects as well, so it has been spun off into an indepdenent file.

Install

pip install astronomy-types

How to use?

import astronomy_types

See astronomy_types.py for currently implemented types.

Set a return type for a function

def degrees_to_decimal_degrees(degrees: astronomy_types.Degrees) -> astronomy_types.DecimalDegrees

Updating and Repackaging the Project with setuptools

To update and repackage this Python project using setuptools on macOS, follow these steps:

1. Install or Activate the Virtual Environment

It's recommended to use a virtual environment for isolation. If you don't already have a virtual environment, create and activate one:

Create and start virtual environment:

python3 -m venv venv

source venv/bin/activate

2. Install Required Dependencies

Ensure that setuptools and wheel are installed in your environment:

pip install setuptools wheel twine

or

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Update version number

setup(
    name="astronomy_types",
    version="0.2.0",  # Update this to the new version number
    ...
)

4. Build the dist

python3 setup.py sdist bdist_wheel

5. Upload with twine

twine upload dist/*

And enter in the API token when prompted