Overview

Supertype-python is a package containing a single function, supertype(). This one works like type but gives more information, which could be useful in a development phase.

Installation

pip install supertype-python

Usage

Without this package, it would take some precious time and precious attention to know the content of an object like this :

a = [0,1,2]
b = 'bbb'
c = 5
d = {"x": "X", "y": "Y", "z": "Z"}
e = [a,b]
f = array('l', [1, 2, 3, 4, 5])
g = (f,e,c,d)

Now, you can import supertype() and just ask the supertype of the object f :

from supertype import supertype

supertype(g)

This returns :

tuple of 4 elements containing : 
    -array of 5 elements containing {'int'}
    -list of 2 elements containing : 
        -list of 3 elements containing {'int'}
        -str of 3 elements
    -int
    -dict of 3 elements

This also works with objects from other librairies and even with you homemade objects !

What should be added soon

-correction of language approximations
-specific treatment for some types (not very useful to know the size of a string for example)
-better comments
-check compatibility with all python 3, see if it can go to python 2
-...

If you have any idea or suggestion feel free to contact me on my email.

Contributors

Martin Letzgus
Antoine Thiol
Quentin Petit

License

MIT