Pythonic type hints with pandas?
Why not just use pd.DataFrame
?
import pandas as pd
def csv_to_df(path: str) -> pd.DataFrame:
return pd.read_csv(path, skiprows=1, sep='\t', comment='#')
Result is the same:
> help(csv_to_df)
Help on function csv_to_df in module __main__:
csv_to_df(path:str) -> pandas.core.frame.DataFrame
Check out the answer given here which explains the usage of the package data-science-types
.
pip install data-science-types
Demo
# program.py
import pandas as pd
df: pd.DataFrame = pd.DataFrame({'col1': [1,2,3], 'col2': [4,5,6]}) # OK
df1: pd.DataFrame = pd.Series([1,2,3]) # error: Incompatible types in assignment
Run using mypy the same way:
$ mypy program.py
Now there is a pip package that can help with this. https://github.com/CedricFR/dataenforce
You can install it with pip install dataenforce
and use very pythonic type hints like:
def preprocess(dataset: Dataset["id", "name", "location"]) -> Dataset["location", "count"]:
pass
I'm currently doing the following:
from typing import TypeVar
PandasDataFrame = TypeVar('pandas.core.frame.DataFrame')
def csv_to_df(path: str) -> PandasDataFrame:
return pd.read_csv(path, skiprows=1, sep='\t', comment='#')
Which gives:
> help(csv_to_df)
Help on function csv_to_df in module __main__:
csv_to_df(path:str) -> ~pandas.core.frame.DataFrame
Don't know how pythonic that is, but it's understandable enough as a type hint, I find.