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[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

i mean, i'm all for rejiggering the internals. i've personally written at least two libraries that uses type annotations in reverse to force arguments into the correct type, and i feel like that should probably be a separate mechanism to "just call the annotation"

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

dataclasses do this for you at the class level. They enforce type annotations at instantiation.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/dataclasses.html

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

i think we're talking about different things. you use enforce to mean "validate", i used it to mean "coerce". one of the cases was a command line argument parser that consisted of a single decorator, so you could write


@command
def foo(bar: int, baz: float):
    print(baz * 2 + bar * 3)

and call it with $ myfile.py foo --bar 3 --baz 2.2 and it would print 13.4

another was about creating working protocol buffers from an excel sheet, nested types and enums and oneofs and everything. we used it to parameterize tests of our bluetooth protocol.

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