sourcetypes

Python Source Code Types For Inline Syntax Highlighting

Type annotations for various languages, when applied to multi line strings will syntax highlighting with the python-inline-source VS Code plugin.

Supports html, css, javascript, typescript, sql, graphql, multiple css extension languages, template languages and many more, see below for a full list.

Uses typing.Annotated to annotate the str type with the language used. You can use typing.get_type_hints at runtime to determine the language that a string has been annotated with.

On Python versions prior to 3.9 uses typing_extensions to support Annotated types.

Installation

pip install sourcetypes

Example

Usage

Use a type decoration named for language that you are using:

import sourcetypes

my_html_string: sourcetypes.html = """
  <h1>Some HTML</h1>
"""

or:

from sourcetypes import html

my_html_string: html = """
  <h1>Some HTML</h1>
"""

Supported Languages

• markdown (aliased as md)
• html
• django_html (aliased as django)
• django_txt
• jinja
• jinja_html
• css (aliased as style, and styles)
• scss
• less
• sass
• stylus
• javascript (aliased as js)
• jsx (aliased as javascriptreact, and react)
• typescript (aliased as ts)
• tsx (aliased as typescriptreact)
• coffeescript (aliased as coffee)
• sql
• json
• yaml
• graphql
• xml
• python

Release Notes

[0.0.2] - 2022-03-13

• Doc tweaks

[0.0.1] - 2022-03-11

• Alpha release