Python: Type hinting for Gensim

Question

In order to pass my gensim corpus and dictionary through the pipeline, I have made a convenience case class as follows:

class GensimCorpusAndDict:
    def __init__(self, corpus,  dict):
        self.corpus = corpus
        self.dict = dict

It would be helpful to get type hinting on the input parameters. I have read the docs but still not sure how to type hint on third party classes

Answer 1

Read thedocs (PEP-0484) :

Type hints may be [...] and user-defined classes (including those defined in the standard library or third-party modules).

For example:

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd

class GensimCorpusAndDict:
    def __init__(self, corpus: np.ndarray, the_dict: pd.DataFrame):
        self.corpus = corpus
        self.dict = the_dict

Note: it is not good practice to use a variable name that shadows a built-in (in this case dict ).