Decorator for automatically casting string inputs to their most likely Python data types.
This implementation runs ast.literal_eval() on all inputs. This is simple and reliable, but fairly slow, and therefore probably inappropriate for code that must run fast.
This decorator uses wrapt to enable signature-preserving decoration.
For more discussion, see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7019283/automatically-type-cast-parameters-in-python
from autocast import autocast
@autocast
def my_function(arg):
print(type(arg))
>>> my_function('3')
<type 'int'>If you like this module, please contribute! I welcome patches, documentation, issues, ideas, and so on.