autocast

Automatically detect the true Python type of a string and cast it to the correct type.

Based on https://github.com/cgreer/cgAutoCast/blob/master/cgAutoCast.py

Only used by Legacy configuration file parser.

Functions:¶

autocast_value(var: Any) -> Any

Guess the string representation of the variable’s type.

PARAMETER	DESCRIPTION
`var`	Value to autocast. TYPE: `Any`

RETURNS	DESCRIPTION
`Any`	The autocasted value.

boolify(s: str) -> bool

Convert a string to a boolean.

listify(s: str) -> list

Convert a string representation of a list into a list of homogeneous basic types.

The type of the elements in the list is determined via the first element. Successive elements are cast to that type.

PARAMETER	DESCRIPTION
`s`	String representation of a list. TYPE: `str`

RETURNS	DESCRIPTION
`list`	List of homogeneous basic types.

RAISES	DESCRIPTION
`ValueError`	If string does not represent a list.
`TypeError`	If string does not represent a list of homogeneous basic types.

noneify(s: str) -> None

Convert a string to None.