TypeIs for isinstance
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Description
Apologies if I'm missing something obvious, but I checked issues and PR's and haven't seen this mentioned explicitly.
Could isinstance use TypeIs?
With multiples checks it could return an union, with one type T a TypeIs[T].
I often find myself writing one-liner helpers functions that just call isinstance, see this script for example:
https://github.com/OutSquareCapital/pyochain/blob/master/scripts/check_docstrings.py
This both add boilerplate and a performance tax due to a double function call overhead.
I'm very often using lambdas with fluent interfaces, e.g
res = (
my_iterator
.map(lambda x: ...)
.filter(lambda x: isinstance(x, int)
)
Assuming my_iterator is an Iterator[Any], it would be fantastic if it could be narrowed to Iterator[int] without having to define a separate TypeIs function.
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Research direction
Start with the linked scripts/check_docstrings.py example and the requested isinstance/TypeIs behavior. Clarify how single and multiple checks should narrow types, then identify the typeshed stubs and tests needed to validate that behavior; done means the proposal has a defined typing result and corresponding coverage.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- devtools
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100