colorful how to handle dynamic types

[fliiiix]

I played around with the new colorful types and there is a interesting problem. Colorful takes full advantage of __getattr__ and im a bit out of ideas how to type this.

Common usage is (also seen in the readme):

import colorful as cf
print(cf.bold_white('Hello World'))

Where bold_white is dynamically build with the dynamically loadable color plate and a modifier.

Which makes this valid working python code:

import colorful as cf
print(cf.bold_underlined_struckthrough_italic_bold_red("typeshed"))

where the color from the pallet is red and the modifiers are separated by a _ and need to be out of a list of MODIFIERS but otherwise can be combined in any order and even be repeated.

MODIFIERS = {
    'reset': (0, 0),
    'bold': (1, 22),
    'dimmed': (2, 22),
    'italic': (3, 23),
    'underlined': (4, 24),
    'blinkslow': (5, 25),
    'blinkrapid': (6, 25),
    'inversed': (7, 27),
    'concealed': (8, 28),
    'struckthrough': (9, 29)
}

Is there any good solution to type something this dynamic? Or is the only way to kinda allow everything after colorful.<anything>

[srittau]

If I understand how colorful works correctly, I fear the only possible solution is to basically copy the whole API of Colorful into colorful/__init__.pyi, including __getattr__, which means that indeed colorful.<anything> is allowed when it comes to types.