Extended Types

For convenience, additional types are defined to handle common scenarios.

Numbers

The Number converter should be used for values that can be both integers or floats, but should not be coerced into either type during serialization.

from typing import Optional

from datafiles.converters import Number

Text

The Text converter should be used for strings that contain lines of text, which are optimally serialized across multiple lines in a file.

from typing import Optional

from datafiles.converters import Text

Enumerations

Subclasses of enum.Enum can also be used as type annotations:

from enum import Enum

class Color:
    RED = 1
    GREEN = 2
    BLUE = 3