Hey, hello all.
I’m new here; let me know if this isn’t the correct location for this question and I’ll move or remove it.
I’m interfacing with mpl from geopandas. The issue I’m working right now requires typechecking, and I’m wondering if you have something that could help me.
Situation is the following: we have a list-like object, and we need to check if this is, e.g., a valid color, or rather a list of colors. For this, we from matplotlib.colors import is_color_like, which makes sure we don’t mistake a single rgb-tuple for a list. This works perfectly, no issues there.
There are, however, other plotting attributes which may also appear list-like. For example, linestyle which may be a tuple. As far as I can see, there is no dedicated is_linestyle_like function.
So, my questions:
(a) is there a preferred way of checking if a value is a valid single value for a certain style argument? I’m thinking of something like
def is_valid_value(attr:str, value) -> bool
which can be called like so:
is_valid_value('linewidth', '--') #True
is_valid_value('linewidth', (0, (1, 1)))) #True
is_valid_value('linewidth', [0,1,2,3]) #False
is_valid_value('edgecolor', 'red') #True
(b) Assuming such a thing does not exist, is there a try/except way to catch incorrect values by trying them out? Without actually creating the plotting objects, which is what I do here:
from matplotlib.lines import Line2D
l = Line2D([0],[0],linestyle=[0,1,2,3]) #ValueError
Many thanks!