Typer/Cython - anyone ever used it?

[theodore86]

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Example Code

import typer

def main(user_name: Optional[List[str]] = typer.Option("Theo", "--user-name", "-n")):
    print(f"Hello {user_name}")

Description

Python 3.10.6 (main, Mar 10 2023, 10:55:28) [GCC 11.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

from test_lib.test_file import main
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "src/test_lib/test_file.py", line 31, in init test_lib.test_file
def main(user_name: Optional[List[str]] = typer.Option("Theo", "--user-name", "-n")):
TypeError: Expected list, got OptionInfo

Operating System

Linux

Operating System Details

Cython==3.0.4
Ubuntu 22.04

Typer Version

0.9.0

Python Version

3.10.6

Additional Context

Well it seems that i having some issues with code that has been cythonized and typer is being as a CLI, is there any past experience or recommendation on how to fix the above issue?

The annotated syntax is not working (typing.Annotated[]) the CLI is getting messed up so i decided to try out the non-Annotated syntax for the CLI options.

Thanks in advance,
Theo G.

[theodore86]

Not sure if anyone ever used Typer with Cython but the typing.Annotated[] arguments are not working.

[melsabagh]

It seems that the problem is in this line:

https://github.com/tiangolo/typer/blob/3a7264cd56181690805f220cb44a0301c0fdf9f3/typer/utils.py#L109-L109

Cython enables from __future__ import annotations by default which results in stringifying the annotations. According to the docs, inspect.signature(..., eval_str=True) should be used to unstringify these annotations. This is related to #598.

@tiangolo

I am currently monkey-patching Typer as follows to workaround this:

import inspect

import typer.utils

class _inspect:
    @staticmethod
    def signature(func, *args, **kwargs):
        eval_str = kwargs.pop("eval_str", True)
        return inspect.signature(func, *args, **kwargs, eval_str=eval_str)
typer.utils.inspect = _inspect

[theodore86]

Thank you @melsabagh, i will try to re-use this proposal, it would very useful to have this fix in the next typer release

[svlandeg]

Related PR: #721

[tiangolo]

Thanks for the report @theodore86!

This was indeed (probably) solved by #721, available in Typer 0.9.3, released in the next few hours. 🚀