IterTypes Library

This library has some useful types and functions used to get types of iterables. Whilst iterable types were purposely avoided by the types library, iterables offer unique types which could sometimes be useful to obtain.

Getting started

Start by importing the module:

import itertypes

There are various functions which follow the naming convention is[type]iterator.

itertypes.isstringiterator(iter("string"))
>>> True

dictionary = {1: 2, 3: 4}
iteration = iter(dictionary.items())
itertypes.isdictitemiterator(iteration)
>>> True

There's also the itertypes.isiterator function where it checks if the given object is iterable or not.

my_variable = 5
itertypes.isiterable(my_variable)
>>> False

my_variable = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']
all([itertypes.isiterable(my_variable), itertypes.islistiterator(iter(my_variable))])
>>> True

Finally, there's various types which resolve to iterable types. These types can be used with isinstance, or with the equality operator and the type function.

byte = bytearray()
isinstance(iter(byte), itertypes.BytearrayIteratorType)
>>> True

iterable = iter({1: 2, 3: 4}.values())
isinstance(iterable, itertypes.DictValueIteratorType)
>>> True

Installation

Install through pip.

python -m pip install itertypes