streamable 0.14.1

expressive iteration

༄ streamable: fluent iteration

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TL;DR:

🇹 typed	The Stream[T] class extends Iterable[T]
🪶 light	pip install streamable with no additional dependencies
🛡️ robust	Extensively unittested with 100% coverage
💤 lazy	Operations are only evaluated during iteration
🔄 concurrent	Threads-based or asyncio-based concurrency for I/O bound tasks

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1. install

pip install streamable

2. import

from streamable import Stream

3. init

Instantiate a Stream[T] from an Iterable[T].

integers: Stream[int] = Stream(range(10))

4. operate

• Streams are immutable: applying an operation returns a new stream.

• Operations are lazy: only evaluated at iteration time.

odd_integer_strings: Stream[str] = (
    integers
    .filter(lambda n: n % 2)
    .map(str)
)

5. iterate

• Iterate over a Stream[T] as you would over any other Iterable[T].
• Source elements are processed on-the-fly.

collect it

>>> list(odd_integer_strings)
['1', '3', '5', '7', '9']
>>> set(odd_integer_strings)
{'9', '1', '5', '3', '7'}

reduce it

>>> sum(integers)
45
>>> from functools import reduce
>>> reduce(str.__add__, odd_integer_strings)
'13579'

loop it

for odd_integer_string in odd_integer_strings:
    ...

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📒 Operations

.map

Applies a transformation on elements:

negative_integer_strings: Stream[str] = integers.map(lambda n: -n).map(str)

assert list(integer_strings) == ['0', '-1', '-2', '-3', '-4', '-5', '-6', '-7', '-8', '-9']

It has an optional concurrency: int parameter to execute the function concurrently (threads-based) while preserving the order.

It has a sibling operation called .amap to apply an async function concurrently (see section asyncio support).

.foreach

Applies a side effect on elements:

self_printing_integers: Stream[int] = integers.foreach(print)

assert list(self_printing_integers) == list(integers)  # will trigger the printing of the integers

It has an optional concurrency: int parameter to execute the function concurrently (threads-based) while preserving the order.

It has a sibling operation called .aforeach to apply an async function concurrently (see section asyncio support).

.filter

Keeps only the elements that satisfy a condition:

pair_integers: Stream[int] = integers.filter(lambda n: n % 2 == 0)

assert list(pair_integers) == [0, 2, 4, 6, 8]

.slow

Limits the rate at which elements are yielded up to a maximum number of elements per second:

slow_integers: Stream[int] = integers.slow(frequency=5)

assert list(slow_integers) == list(integers)  # takes 10 / 5 = 2 seconds

.group

Groups elements into Lists:

integers_5_by_5: Stream[List[int]] = integers.group(size=5)

assert list(integers_5_by_5) == [[0, 1, 2, 3, 4], [5, 6, 7, 8, 9]]

integers_by_parity: Stream[List[int]] = integers.group(by=lambda n: n % 2)

assert list(integers_by_parity) == [[0, 2, 4, 6, 8], [1, 3, 5, 7, 9]]

integers_within_1s: Stream[List[int]] = integers.slow(frequency=2).group(seconds=1)

assert list(integers_within_1s) == [[0, 1], [2, 3], [4, 5], [6, 7], [8, 9]]

Combine the size/by/seconds parameters:

integers_2_by_2_by_parity: Stream[List[int]] = integers.group(by=lambda n: n % 2, size=2)

assert list(integers_2_by_2_by_parity) == [[0, 2], [1, 3], [4, 6], [5, 7], [8], [9]]

.flatten

Ungroups elements assuming that they are Iterables.

pair_then_odd_integers: Stream[int] = integers_by_parity.flatten()

assert pair_then_odd_integers == [0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9]

It has an optional concurrency: int parameter to flatten several iterables concurrently (threads).

.catch

Catches a given type of exceptions:

safe_inverse_floats: Stream[float] = (
    integers
    .map(lambda n: round(1 / n, 2))
    .catch(ZeroDivisionError)
)

assert list(safe_inverse_floats) == [1.0, 0.5, 0.33, 0.25, 0.2, 0.17, 0.14, 0.12, 0.11]

It has an optional finally_raise: bool parameter to raise the first catched exception when upstream's iteration ends.

.truncate

Stops the iteration:

• after a given number of yielded elements:

five_first_integers: Stream[int] = integers.truncate(5)

assert list(five_first_integers) == [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]

• as soon as a condition is satisfied:

five_first_integers: Stream[int] = integers.truncate(when=lambda n: n == 5)

assert list(five_first_integers) == [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]

.observe

Logs the progress of iterations over this stream:

If you iterate on

observed_slow_integers: Stream[int] = slow_integers.observe("integers")

you will get these logs:

INFO: [duration=0:00:00.502155 errors=0] 1 integers yielded
INFO: [duration=0:00:01.006336 errors=0] 2 integers yielded
INFO: [duration=0:00:02.011921 errors=0] 4 integers yielded
INFO: [duration=0:00:04.029666 errors=0] 8 integers yielded
INFO: [duration=0:00:05.039571 errors=0] 10 integers yielded

The amount of logs will never be overwhelming because they are produced logarithmically e.g. the 11th log will be produced when the iteration reaches the 1024th element.

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📦 Notes Box

typing

This is a fully typed library (you can mypy it).

supported Python versions

Compatible with Python 3.7+ (unittested for: 3.7.17, 3.8.18, 3.9.18, 3.10.13, 3.11.7, 3.12.1).

support for asyncio

As an alternative to the threads-based concurrency available for .map and .foreach operations (via their concurrency parameter), one can use .amap and .aforeach operations to apply async functions concurrently on a stream:

import asyncio
import time

async def slow_async_square(n: int) -> int:
    await asyncio.sleep(3)
    return n ** 2

def slow_str(n: int) -> str:
    time.sleep(3)
    return str(n)

print(
    ", ".join(
        integers
        # coroutines-based concurrency
        .amap(slow_async_square, concurrency=8)
        # threads-based concurrency
        .map(slow_str, concurrency=8)
        .truncate(5)
    )
)

this prints (in 6s):

0, 1, 4, 9, 16

CPU-bound tasks

For CPU-bound tasks, consider using the PyPy interpreter whose Just In Time (JIT) compilation should drastically improve performances, e.g. this snippet is run 50 times faster by PyPy compared to standard CPython interpreter:

# cpu_bound_script.py
from streamable import Stream
print(
    sum(
        Stream(range(1, 1_000_000_000))
        .map(lambda n: 1/n)
    )
)

Few rough runtime orders of magnitude: CPython vs PyPy vs Java vs C vs Rust.

Extract-Transform-Load tasks

One can leverage this library to write elegant ETL scripts, check the README dedicated to ETL.

as functions

The Stream's methods are also exposed as functions:

from streamable.functions import slow

iterator: Iterator[int] = ...
slow_iterator: Iterator[int] = slow(iterator)

visitor pattern

The Stream class exposes an .accept method and you can implement a visitor by extending the streamable.visitor.Visitor class:

from streamable.visitor import Visitor

class DepthVisitor(Visitor[int]):
    def visit_stream(self, stream: Stream) -> int:
        if not stream.upstream:
            return 1
        return 1 + stream.upstream.accept(self)

def stream_depth(stream: Stream) -> int:
    return stream.accept(DepthVisitor())

>>> stream_depth(odd_integer_strings)
3

go to line

Style tip: Enclose operations in parentheses to keep lines short without needing trailing backslashes \.

stream: Stream[str] = (
    Stream(range(10))
    .map(str)
    .foreach(print)
    .flatten()
    .truncate(10)
)

explain

print(stream.explanation())

└─•TruncateStream(count=10, when=None)
  └─•FlattenStream(concurrency=1)
    └─•ForeachStream(effect=print, concurrency=1)
      └─•MapStream(transformation=str, concurrency=1)
        └─•Stream(source=range(...))

change logging level

import logging

logging.getLogger("streamable").setLevel(logging.WARNING)