Re: [PATCH v5 06/13] scripts: generate_rust_analyzer.py: add type hints

[Trevor Gross]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM Tamir Duberstein <tamird@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Python type hints allow static analysis tools like mypy to detect type
> errors during development, improving the developer experience.
>
> Python type hints have been present in the kernel since 2019 at the
> latest; see commit 6ebf5866f2e8 ("kunit: tool: add Python wrappers for
> running KUnit tests").
>
> Add a subclass of `argparse.Namespace` to get type checking on the CLI
> arguments. Move parsing of `cfg` out of `generate_crates` to reduce the
> number of variables in scope with `cfg` in their name. Use a defaultdict
> to avoid `.get("key", [])`.
>
> Run `mypy --strict scripts/generate_rust_analyzer.py --python-version
> 3.8` to verify. Note that `mypy` no longer supports python < 3.8.
>
> Tested-by: Daniel Almeida <daniel.almeida@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  scripts/generate_rust_analyzer.py | 166 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>  1 file changed, 109 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)

> +                {
> +                    crate: vals.lstrip("--cfg").split()
> +                    for crate, vals in map(lambda cfg: cfg.split("=", 1), args.cfgs)
> +                },

Tiny nit only if you wind up touching this again, generators or
comprehension are a bit more canonical than `map` and `filter`

     for crate, _, vals in (cfg.partition("=") for cfg in args.cfg)

The rest looks good to me, with or without that

Reviewed-by: Trevor Gross <tmgross@xxxxxxxxx>