Python Type Hints

[chuck-adaptive]

Python is an interpreted language - but they've recently added type hint support

Type the functions we've created and potentially provide some out of the box Python types

There are some libraries that do this automatically

https://pypi.org/project/ts2python/

But I haven't fully evaluated them

The key thing here is to make a best effort to encapsulate the Typescript types in Python.

in my research, I liked this comparison

// Typescript

interface Icon {
  src: string;
  size?: string;
  type?: string;
}

# Python

class Icon(dict):
  def __init__(self, src: string, size: str = None, type: str = None):
    super().__init__(src=src, size=size, type=type)

  @property
  def src(self) -> str:
    return self['src']

  @property
  def size(self) -> str:
    return self.get('size', '') # maybe this should be None?

  ...

Ultimate Goal - a build pipeline that consume the latest Typescript definitions and creates Python types. I say that only to say, if we see a means for automating this, that is very exciting