dataclass-applicative --- treating dataclasses like containers

This package provides functions for manipulating dataclasses as containers.

Documentation

The documentation is hosted on ReadTheDocs, and the source code for that documentation is available here.

Quick start

Given a dataclass,

>>> from dataclasses import dataclass
>>> from dataclass_applicative import amap, fmap, gather, pure, names, values
>>> @dataclass
... class F:
...     x: object
...     y: object
...     z: object

we can list its fields;

>>> list(names(F))
['x', 'y', 'z']

list its values;

>>> list(values(F(1, 2, 3)))
[1, 2, 3]

default-construct new instances;

>>> pure(F, 1)
F(x=1, y=1, z=1)

apply a function to those values;

>>> fmap(str, F(1, 2, 3))
F(x='1', y='2', z='3')

or apply functions stored in one object to values stored in another;

>>> amap(F(str, lambda _: 999, lambda z: z + 1), F(1, 2, 3))
F(x='1', y=999, z=4)

and gather all attributes from many instances into tuples in a new object:

>>> gather(F(1, 2, 3), F(10, 11, 12), F(3, 2, 1), F(0, 0, 0))
F(x=(1, 10, 3, 0), y=(2, 11, 2, 0), z=(3, 12, 1, 0))