lazy-type-hint 2.0.3

Automate type hint generation in an easy way.

LazyTypeHint

Type hint any Python (nested) data structure! Dictionaries, callables, Pandas DataFrames...

pip install lazy-type-hint

Main features

1. Get corresponding type hints from any given data structure and with mutltiple parsing options. Export it as a file or as a string.

      from lazy_type_hint import LazyTypeHint, ParsingStrategies
   
      # INPUT
      people = [
          {
              "name": "Peter",
              "age": 40,
              "kids": (
                  {
                      "name": "Peter Jr",
                      "age": 10,
                  },
                  {
                      "name": "Peter Jr2",
                      "age": 8,
                  },
              ),
          },
          {
              "name": "Kevin",
              "age": 42,
              "job": "Carpenter",
              "kids": (
                  {
                      "name": "Peter Jr",
                      "age": 10,
                  },
              ),
          },
      ]
   
      people_type_hint = (
          LazyTypeHint(
              strategies=ParsingStrategies(
                  min_height_to_define_type_alias=2,
                  tuple_size_strategy="any size",
              )
          )
          .from_data(people, class_name="People")
          .to_string()
      )
      print(people_type_hint)
   

    # OUTPUT
    from typing import List, Tuple, TypedDict
    from typing_extensions import NotRequired
   
   
    class PeopleDictKidsDict(TypedDict):
        name: str
        age: int
   
   
    class PeopleDict(TypedDict):
        name: str
        age: int
        kids: Tuple[PeopleDictKidsDict, ...]
        job: NotRequired[str]
   
    People = List[PeopleDict]
   

2. [EXPERIMENTAL] Get type hints live with LazyTypeHintLive. The API changes its local interface as soon as you use it, allowing to automatically infer and reuse your type hints after executing your program once.

   Before executing the code	After executing the code

   This will allow you to:

   Imagen 1	Imagen 2
   Perform static analysis to detect issues
   Reuse your available type hints
   Have full autocompletion support from your IDE

3. Easily type hint your files (YAML, JSON) and parse extra comments found within this file as part of the type hint docstrings. Given a yaml file like:

    # Collection of sensors
    sensors:
      - name: Sensor1
        # Type of sensor used
        sensor_type: Temperature
        location: Living Room
        # Maximum amount allowed.
        # NOTE: Only 3 are available
        threshold: 25  # Units: [C]
   
      - name: Sensor2
        sensor_type: Humidity
        location: Bedroom
        threshold: 60
   
      - name: Sensor3
        sensor_type: Pressure
        location: Kitchen
        threshold: 1000
   

   And the code:

      from lazy_type_hint import LazyTypeHint
   
   
    def load_yaml_file(file_path):
        with open(file_path, "r") as file:
            data = yaml.safe_load(file)
        return data
   
   
    print(LazyTypeHint().from_yaml_file(
        loader=load_yaml_file,
        path="example.yaml",
        class_name="Sensors",
        comments_are=("above", "side"),
    ).to_string())
   

   Generate type hints like:

   from typing import List, TypedDict
   
   
   class SensorsSensorsDict(TypedDict):
       name: str
       sensor_type: str
       """Type of sensor used. NOTE: Only 3 are available."""
       location: str
       threshold: int
       """
       Maximum amount allowed.
   
       Units: [C].
       """
   
   SensorsSensors = List[SensorsSensorsDict]
   
   
   class Sensors(TypedDict):
       sensors: SensorsSensors
       """Collection of sensors."""
   

What makes it a different tool?

There are some tools that aim to perform something similar. Cattrs or pydantic require knowing the structure beforehand. Then, the developer is responsible for writing it. They are validation-oriented. This tool is more geared towards providing better type hints in an automated way and ensuring that the structure is accessed correctly. Although other tools such as Stubgen are able to generate .pyi files in an automated way, it might be required to edit the environment to indicate where these stub-based files are located.

All features

Main features:

• Type hint any (nested) structure.
• Dictionaries can be type hinted as TypedDict, meaning that the IDE will have extra information about its underlying structures. Developer can therefore benefit from extra static analysis or autcomplete features.
• Similarity based merge:
  • Equal (nested) structures will be detected as such and type hinted under the same type alias.
  • Similar structures such as dictionaries will be merged indicating which keys were found to be not mandatory or required.
• Type hint structures within any given file (YAML, JSON...).
• Document structures:
  • Specify a specific keyword within dictionaries that will be parsed and included as a docstring.
  • Some file format such as like YAML will also find and parse comments as docstrings.
• Wide range of type hint based on strategies. The user can select at any time:
  • Which kind of container is prefered (Sequence/list)
  • How to type hint a tuple (either with fixed or non-fixed size)
  • The complexity of the type aliases to be created.
  • Dictionaries typed as Mapping, Dict or TypedDict
  • Minimum percentage of similarity between dicts to be merged.
  • Mutable or read-only based TypedDict.

Structures that can be type hinted:

• Sequences: list, tuples
• Sets: sets, frozensets
• Dictionaries: dict, MappingProxyType
• Pandas DataFrame: Full support for string-based columns and MultiIndex columns
• Simple built-in types: bool, int, float, range, slice, None, str
• Callables: lambdas, functions, staticmethods, classmethods
• Custom objects: instances and classes