microconst 0.1.1

Library for optimizing enum constant values

microconst

Replace long constant names with 2 ASCII characters

Installation

pip:

pip install microconst

poetry:

poetry add microconst

Features

Constants

Every call of flag or key generates 2-character constant. This constant is represented as left and right indexes of f"{ascii_letters}{digits}" str. Each time the left index reaches cap, it resets to 0 and right index increments.
After reaching both of caps, next call of function will throw OverflowError. Current maximum count of constants is 3844.

Typing

key function requires value_type argument, such as str, int etc. This type used in both static analysis and type conversion with Key.parse_entry function.

Examples

Main purpose of this library is making telegram bot's "callback_data" much more compact because of 64-byte limit. You can see more realistic example here

Flag usage

Before:

from enum import StrEnum, auto

# Some very strict limit
MAX_LEN: int = 4

class Status(StrEnum):
    PENDING = auto()
    APPROVED = auto()
    REJECTED = auto()

assert Status.PENDING == "pending"
assert len(Status.PENDING) > MAX_LEN  # Too long

After:

from microconst import flag

MAX_LEN: int = 4

# Autogenerates unique pairs of characters
class Status:
    PENDING = flag()
    APPROVED = flag()
    REJECTED = flag()

assert Status.PENDING == "aa"
assert len(Status.PENDING) < MAX_LEN 

Key usage

Before:

from enum import StrEnum, auto

class Data(StrEnum):
    USERNAME = auto()
    ORDER = auto()

# You should use separator because of varying character count in key
username = Data.USERNAME + ":" + "name"
assert username == "username:name"  # Too long

value = username.split(":")[1]
assert value == "name"

order = Data.ORDER + ":" + str(1337)
assert order == "order:1337"

# Order doesnt contain its type anywhere, so you should convert types each time
assert int(order.split(":")[1]) == 1337

After:

from microconst import key, parse_entry

class Data:
    USERNAME = key(str)
    ORDER = key(int)

# You can call keys to create key-value pair (acts same as concat)
username = Data.USERNAME("name")
assert username == "aaname"

# Getting value
value = Data.USERNAME.parse_entry(username)
assert value == "name"

order = Data.ORDER(1337)
assert order == "ba1337"

# You can use separate function or method. Method doesnt require type argument
assert parse_entry(order, int) == 1337
assert Data.ORDER.parse_entry(order) == 1337

License

MIT