Autoinput

This library is for easier input in Python. It is 100% that you don't want to do this:

while 1:
  try:
    x = int(input())
    break
  except:
    print("Please input a number")

because it is 6 lines when you can have 1 line:

x = autoinput("", autoinput_type.INTEGER)

and everything is inside the function. No work by hands.

how to use

Here is the definition

def autoinput(outstring: str,
              typeel,
              pipe_in: Callable[[str], str]=input,
              pipe_out: Callable[[str], None]=print,
              pipe_out_end_name: str="end",
              pipe_out_flush_name: str = "flush",
              use_input_argument_for_output: bool=True,
              parser=None) -> Any:

First argument - outstring, string to show.

Second argument - typeel, use autoinput_type enum to form this (example: autoinput_type.INTEGER | autoinput_type.ARRAY)

kwargs:

pipe_in - for custom input function (for example if you use GUI)

pipe_out - for custom output function

parser - for custom parser (don't use with autoinput_type except of autoinput_type.ARRAY and/or autoinput_type.STRING)

pipe_out_end_name - if your custom output function doesn't have parameter like print's end use None, if has but called not end use the parameter to specify the name.

pipe_out_flush_name - the same as pipe_out_end_name but for flush.

use_input_argument_for_output - specifies if your pipe_in should get outsring as an output.

autoinput_type - the way to specify type of data

values

autoinput_type - IntFlag used to specify the type. Here are variants of it:

autoinput_type.INTEGER - return integer

autoinput_type.FLOAT - return floating point number

autoinput_type.STRING - return string, default type

autoinput_type.BOOLYN - asks yes or no, return bool

autoinput_type.BOOLTF - asks true or false, return bool

autoinput_type.ARRAY - asks for array where values are separated by space, return array of another type (if not specified returns str)

how to use

To combine autoinput_type use |. Example:

autoinput_type.INTEGER | autoinput_type.ARRAY

WARNING: Do not combine types like that:

autoinput_type.INTEGER | autoinput_type.FLOAT

You will get an error if you try to run this.

If you need not a basic type use parser named argument.

how to get Autoinput

To get Autoinput you can run this:

pip install autoinput

or:

GNU/Linux or MacOS:

python3 -m pip install autoinput

Windows:

py -m pip install autoinput