Consider this json file named h.json I want to convert this into a python dataclass. I could use an alternative constructor for getting each account, for example: but this is limited to what arguments (email, name, etc.) were defined in the dataclass. What if I were to modify the json to include another thing…
Tag: python-dataclasses
Nested python dataclasses with list annotations
python ^3.7. Trying to create nested dataclasses to work with complex json response. I managed to do that with creating dataclass for every level of json and using __post_init_ to set fields as objects of other dataclasses. However that creates a lot of boilerplate code and also, there is no annotation for ne…
populate dataclass instance from other dataclass instance
I have a scenario where I’ve two dataclass which share some command keys. Let’s say and class B Both of this class share some key value. Now I want to assign those common key value from class A to to class B instance. One way I know is to convert both the class to dict object do the process and
Cast a Python class to Numpy Array
Can I cast a python class to a numpy array? In the last step, I would like the to obtain an array np.array([X.x, X.y]). Instead, I get array(X(x=0, y=0), dtype=object). Can I provide method for the dataclass so that the casting works as desired (or overload one of the existing methods of the dataclass)? Answe…
Extending frozen dataclass and take all data from base class instance
Suppose we have a class coming from a library, I have a dog constructor coming from an external library. I would like this dog to have a new member, let’s say ‘bite’. Obviously pluto[‘bite’] = True will fail, since dataclass is frozen. So my idea is to make a subclass from Dog an…
Abstract dataclass without abstract methods in Python: prohibit instantiation
Even if a class is inherited from ABC, it can still be instantiated unless it contains abstract methods. Having the code below, what is the best way to prevent an Identifier object from being created: Identifier([‘get’, ‘Name’])? Answer You can create a AbstractDataclass class which gu…
How does one ignore extra arguments passed to a dataclass?
I’d like to create a config dataclass in order to simplify whitelisting of and access to specific environment variables (typing os.environ[‘VAR_NAME’] is tedious relative to config.VAR_NAME). I therefore need to ignore unused environment variables in my dataclass’s __init__ function, b…
Data Classes vs typing.NamedTuple primary use cases
Long story short PEP-557 introduced data classes into Python standard library, that basically can fill the same role as collections.namedtuple and typing.NamedTuple. And now I’m wondering how to separate the use cases in which namedtuple is still a better solution. Data classes advantages over NamedTupl…
Dataclasses and property decorator
I’ve been reading up on Python 3.7’s dataclass as an alternative to namedtuples (what I typically use when having to group data in a structure). I was wondering if dataclass is compatible with the property decorator to define getter and setter functions for the data elements of the dataclass. If s…