Now, the following is working for me:
from collections import defaultdict from typing import Tuple, Dict, DefaultDict, Set, List, NewType Key = NewType('Key', str) Lang = NewType('Lang', str) Translation = NewType('Translation', str) PLIndex = NewType('PLIndex', int) FormsDict = DefaultDict[PLIndex, Translation] TranslationsDict = DefaultDict[Lang, FormsDict] TermsDict = DefaultDict[Key, TranslationsDict] terms: TermsDict = defaultdict(# TermsDict lambda: defaultdict(# TranslationsDict lambda: defaultdict(# FormsDict lambda: Translation("") # Default value ""(as Translation))))
I have tested this with mypy --strict
and it passes validation. Using this with defaultdict
and still passing validation, it seems that you will need cast
from typing
import cast
terms[Key("key1")].update(
cast(TranslationsDict, {
Lang("en_GB.UTF-8"): cast(FormsDict, {
PLIndex(100): Translation("key1")
})
})
)
print(terms)
Output:
defaultdict(<function <lambda> at 0x107d31cb0>, { 'key1': defaultdict(<function <lambda>.<locals>.<lambda> at 0x107d31d40>, { 'en_GB.UTF-8': {100: 'key1'}})})
This module defines several types that are subclasses of pre-existing standard library classes which also extend Generic to support type variables inside []. These types became redundant in Python 3.9 when the corresponding pre-existing classes were enhanced to support [].,Introducing types.GenericAlias and the ability to use standard library classes as generic types,Generic[T] as a base class defines that the class LoggedVar takes a single type parameter T . This also makes T valid as a type within the class body.,A user-defined generic class can have ABCs as base classes without a metaclass conflict. Generic metaclasses are not supported. The outcome of parameterizing generics is cached, and most types in the typing module are hashable and comparable for equality.
def greeting(name: str) - > str:
return 'Hello ' + name
Vector = list[float] def scale(scalar: float, vector: Vector) - > Vector: return [scalar * num for num in vector ] # typechecks; a list of floats qualifies as a Vector. new_vector = scale(2.0, [1.0, -4.2, 5.4])
from collections.abc import Sequence ConnectionOptions = dict[str, str] Address = tuple[str, int] Server = tuple[Address, ConnectionOptions] def broadcast_message(message: str, servers: Sequence[Server]) - > None: ... # The static type checker will treat the previous type signature as # being exactly equivalent to this one. def broadcast_message( message: str, servers: Sequence[tuple[tuple[str, int], dict[str, str]]]) - > None: ...
from typing
import NewType
UserId = NewType('UserId', int)
some_id = UserId(524313)
def get_user_name(user_id: UserId) - > str: ... # typechecks user_a = get_user_name(UserId(42351)) # does not typecheck; an int is not a UserId user_b = get_user_name(-1)
# 'output' is of type 'int', not 'UserId' output = UserId(23413) + UserId(54341)
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Output:
Dictionary: {
1: 'Geeks',
2: 'For',
3: 'Geeks'
}
Geeks
Dictionary: {1: 'Geeks', 2: 'For', 3: 'Geeks'} Geeks
Traceback(most recent call last):
File "/home/1ca83108cc81344dc7137900693ced08.py", line 11, in
print(Dict[4])
KeyError: 4
December 13, 2021February 22, 2022
Let’s take a look at how to access a key’s value from a Python dictionary:
# Accessing a Key 's Value from a Python Dictionary data = { 'Name': 'Nik', 'Location': 'Toronto', 'Age': 33 } print(data['Name']) # Returns: Nik
Now, let’s take a look at what happens when we try to access a key that doesn’t exist:
# Accessing a Missing Key 's Value from a Python Dictionary data = { 'Name': 'Nik', 'Location': 'Toronto', 'Age': 33 } print(data['Hobbies']) # Raises: KeyError: 'Hobbies'
We can use the dictionary .get()
method to prevent a KeyError
from being raised when a dictionary key doesn’t exist. If we try to access a key’s value that doesn’t exist using the .get()
method, the method simply returns the None
value. Let’s see what this looks like:
# Using.get() to Prevent a KeyError data = { 'Name': 'Nik', 'Location': 'Toronto', 'Age': 33 } print(data.get('Hobbies')) # Returns: None
Python dictionaries also provide a method, .defaultvalue()
, which allows us to set, well, a default value for a key. This method sets the default value when a key doesn’t exist and returns that value. Let’s see how we can use that:
# Using.setdefault() to Set a Default Value for a Missing Key data = { 'Name': 'Nik', 'Location': 'Toronto', 'Age': 33 } data.setdefault('Hobbies', None) print(data['Hobbies'])
We can make use of the class by importing it in our program:
# Importing the defaultdict Class
from collections
import defaultdict
January 3, 2022 19 min read 5429
When declaring a variable in statically-typed languages like C and Java, you are mandated to declare the data type of the variable. As a result, you cannot assign a value that does not conform to the data type you specified for the variable. For example, if you declare a variable to be an integer, you can’t assign a string value to it at any point in time.
int x = 4;
x = "hello"; // this would trigger a type error
In Python, you can define a variable with a type hint using the following syntax:
variable_name: type = value
Let’s look at the following variable:
name = "rocket”
In Python, you can read the type hints defined on variables using the __annotations__
dictionary:
>>> name: str = "rocket"
>>> __annotations__
{'name': <class 'str'>}
As mentioned earlier, the Python interpreter does not enforce types, so defining a variable with a wrong type won’t trigger an error:
>>> name: int = "rocket" >>>