Re:Python’s “type hints” are a bit of a disappointment to me
by smallerfish on Friday April 22, 2022 @07:25AM
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You wouldn't typically type tabular data in any language. Give it (at most) a DataFrame<StoreTransaction> type if you must, where StoreTransaction describes the structure of a row - maybe declaring only columns that model generation code was doing typed operations on (e.g. numerics vs strings) to avoid the need for reflection.
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Re:Python’s “type hints” are a bit of a disappointment to me
by bayesian_horse on Friday April 22, 2022 @08:52AM
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Either you type the tabular data at compile time or you don't get type checking of tabular data at compile time.
The number and types of the columns aren't necessarily known at compile time. Which leads to runtime errors. Even in a statically typed language, such dataframes are a kind of "dynamic typing escape hatch". As complexity of a software increases, such mechanismus of dynamic typing and throwing runtime errors creep up all over the place.
Re:Python’s “type hints” are a bit of a disappointment to me
by smallerfish on Friday April 22, 2022 @09:21AM
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Sure. If you're dealing with untyped data at runtime you can't type it at compile time. Not a new issue, and handled all the time in otherwise typed languages.