compose 1.2.0

The classic ``compose``, with all the Pythonic features.

The classic compose, with all the Pythonic features.

This compose follows the lead of functools.partial and returns callable compose objects which:

• have a regular and unambiguous repr,

• retain correct signature introspection,

• allow introspection of the composed callables,

• can be type-checked,

• can be weakly referenced,

• can have attributes,

• will merge when nested, and

• can be pickled (if all composed callables can be pickled).

This compose also fails fast with a TypeError if any argument is not callable, or when called with no arguments.

This module also provides an acompose which can compose both regular and async functions.

Versioning

This library’s version numbers follow the SemVer 2.0.0 specification.

Installation

pip install compose

Usage

Import compose:

from compose import compose

All the usual function composition you know and love:

>>> def double(x):
...     return x * 2
...
>>> def increment(x):
...     return x + 1
...
>>> double_then_increment = compose(increment, double)
>>> double_then_increment(1)
3

Of course any number of functions can be composed:

>>> def double(x):
...     return x * 2
...
>>> times_eight = compose(douple, double, double)
>>> times_16 = compose(douple, double, double, double)

We still get the correct signature introspection:

>>> def f(a, b, c=0, **kwargs):
...     pass
...
>>> def g(x):
...     pass
...
>>> g_of_f = compose(g, f)
>>> import inspect
>>> inspect.signature(g_of_f)
<Signature (a, b, c=0, **kwargs)>

And we can inspect all the composed callables:

>>> g_of_f.functions  # in order of execution:
(<function f at 0x4048e6f0>, <function g at 0x405228e8>)

When programmatically inspecting arbitrary callables, we can check if we are looking at a compose instance:

>>> isinstance(g_of_f, compose)
True

We can do all of the above with async functions mixed in by using acompose instead of compose:

from compose import acompose

Recipes

• If you want composing zero functions to be the identity function:

  def identity(x):
      return x
  
  icompose = partial(compose, identity)

• If you want the functions attribute to be cached:

  import functools
  
  class ccompose(compose):
      @functools.cache_property
      def functions(self):
          return super().functions

• Compose arguments in opposite order (useful with things like functools.partial, or just more intuitive in some cases):

  def rcompose(*functions):
      return compose(*reversed(functions))

• When you need a regular function instead of a callable class instance (for example, when you want to define a method using compose):

  def fcompose(*functions):
      composed = compose(*functions)
      return lambda *args, **kwargs: composed(*args, **kwargs)