Sandbox::https://github.com/apache/datafusion-python/pull/1786

timsaucer · 2026-10-07T15:28:58Z

Which issue does this PR close?

No issue filed yet; happy to open one if preferred.

Rationale for this change

This PR improves our type checking on all public facing Python APIs by running the ty type checker, both in CI and as part of pre-commit. Ruff's ANN rules only require annotations to exist. Running ty against python/datafusion reported 82 diagnostics on main; after configuring imports, about 50 were real annotation drift, and one was a runtime bug (@udtf()).

ty is from Astral, like the ruff and uv tooling already used here, and is fast enough to run as a pre-commit hook.

What changes are included in this PR?

Tooling:

Add ty==0.0.84 to the dev dependency group.
Run ty check in the lint-python CI job and as a local pre-commit hook. Demonstration of it working in CI: https://github.com/apache/datafusion-python/actions/runs/37644274243/job/112870854503?pr=1786

Additionally we made fixes for the reported findings.

Are there any user-facing changes?

No API changes. Contributors need ty in their environment (uv sync --dev) for the new pre-commit hook.

Add ty (pinned to 0.0.84, since it is pre-1.0) to the dev dependency group, configure it in pyproject.toml to check python/datafusion, and run it in the lint-python CI job and as a local pre-commit hook. datafusion._internal ships no stubs, and pandas/polars are optional TYPE_CHECKING-only imports, so they are allowed to stay unresolved. Fix the diagnostics ty reported: - Make the internal udtf decorator helper require `name`, matching the public overloads. `@udtf()` previously passed None into Rust and failed with "'None' is not an instance of 'str'". - Give AggregateUDF.__init__ defaults matching its FFI overload, and add the same FFI overload to ScalarUDF and WindowUDF. - Add None/non-None overloads to expr_list_to_raw_expr_list and sort_list_to_raw_sort_list so callers that unpack the result type check. - Stop rebinding typed *args and parameters to values of other types. - Import warnings.deprecated behind a sys.version_info check and drop the unreachable importlib_metadata fallback. - Fix smaller annotation mismatches (LogicalPlan.__eq__, spark._coerce_i32, CSV file_compression_type). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

timsaucer · 2026-10-07T15:45:45Z

-            left_on = on
-            right_on = on
+            # The legacy ``(left, right)`` tuple form was consumed above.
+            left_on = right_on = cast("str | Sequence[str]", on)


This is a no-op at runtime but will make it so type checkers recognize that we've already verified the type.

timsaucer · 2026-10-07T15:46:39Z

+@overload
+def expr_list_to_raw_expr_list(expr_list: None) -> None: ...
+
+
+@overload
+def expr_list_to_raw_expr_list(
+    expr_list: Sequence[Expr | str] | Expr | str,
+) -> list[expr_internal.Expr]: ...


These overloads make it so type checkers understand that if a None if fed in you get a None out, otherwise you get a valid list of Expr

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Making name required here is an API-breaking change for decorator usage patterns that previously… · New
This invocation likely bypasses the pinned ty==0.0.84 declared in pyproject.toml (because… · New
Replacing None with an empty string changes behavior and can introduce hard-to-debug failures if… · New
Replacing None with an empty string changes behavior and can introduce hard-to-debug failures if… · New
This change removes support for None (previously accepted and passed through). If any Spark… · New
This change removes support for None (previously accepted and passed through). If any Spark… · New

What changed in this PR

Adds Astral’s ty type checker to improve static type safety for the published python/datafusion package, and updates Python APIs/CI tooling to satisfy the newly enforced checks.

Changes:

Add ty configuration + a pinned ty==0.0.84 dev dependency, and run ty check in CI and pre-commit.
Tighten/clarify Python API typing via overloads and minor refactors (e.g., expression/sort list helpers).
Fix a few runtime/type issues discovered by ty (e.g., UDF/UDWF constructor validation, join typing).

File	Description
python/datafusion/user_defined.py	Adds overloads + runtime validation for UDF/UDWF construction; refines decorator typings; adjusts table UDF decorator signature.
python/datafusion/plan.py	Fixes `__eq__` signature to accept `object` (typing-correct equality).
python/datafusion/functions/spark.py	Changes `_coerce_i32` to disallow `None` and always return `Expr`.
python/datafusion/functions/__init__.py	Renames intermediate variables (`raw_args`) for clearer typing and intent.
python/datafusion/expr.py	Adds overloads for list conversion helpers; adjusts `deprecated` import logic; adds `ty` ignores where intended.
python/datafusion/dataframe.py	Improves join typing with `cast`; refactors repartition expr conversion; minor cleanup.
python/datafusion/context.py	Normalizes `file_compression_type` to a string for internal calls; updates `deprecated` import logic.
python/datafusion/catalog.py	Updates `deprecated` import logic for Python 3.13+ compatibility.
python/datafusion/__init__.py	Simplifies metadata import now that stdlib `importlib.metadata` is assumed available.
pyproject.toml	Adds `ty` config + `allowed-unresolved-imports`; pins `ty==0.0.84` in `dev`.
.pre-commit-config.yaml	Adds a local `ty` pre-commit hook.
.github/workflows/build.yml	Runs `ty check` in the `lint-python` job.

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        *,
        with_session: bool = False,
    ) -> Callable[[Callable[..., Any]], TableFunction]:



+      - name: Run ty
+        run: |
+          uv run --no-project ty check --output-format github


                schema_infer_max_records=schema_infer_max_records,
                file_extension=file_extension,
-                file_compression_type=file_compression_type,
+                file_compression_type=file_compression_type or "",


                file_extension=file_extension,
                table_partition_cols=table_partition_cols,
-                file_compression_type=file_compression_type,
+                file_compression_type=file_compression_type or "",


+def _coerce_i32(value: Expr | int) -> Expr:
+    """Coerce a native ``int`` to an int32 literal, passing ``Expr`` through.

    Several Spark datetime and interval builders require 32-bit integer
    inputs, so a bare ``int`` must become an int32 literal rather than the
    int64 default that :meth:`Expr.literal` would produce.
    """


+def _coerce_i32(value: Expr | int) -> Expr:
+    """Coerce a native ``int`` to an int32 literal, passing ``Expr`` through.

    Several Spark datetime and interval builders require 32-bit integer
    inputs, so a bare ``int`` must become an int32 literal rather than the
    int64 default that :meth:`Expr.literal` would produce.
    """


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