def _round_1()

in src/smepu/argparse.py [0:0]

• 18 lines of code
• 8 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

def _round_1(cli_args: Iterable[str]) -> ArgsDict:
    """Convert list of ['--name', 'value', ...] to {'name': val}, where 'val' will be in the nearest data type.

    Conversion follows the principle: "if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck".
    """
    d = {}
    it = iter(cli_args)
    try:
        # Each iteration swallows ["--kwarg", "value"]
        expected = 0
        while True:
            # Get --key
            key = next(it)[2:]
            expected += 1

            # Get the value. Warn if it looks fishy.
            value = next(it)
            expected -= 1
            if value[:2] == "--":
                warnings.warn(f'Fishy cli args / hyperparams: {key}="{value}"')
            d[key] = value
    except StopIteration:
        if expected > 1:
            raise ValueError(f"CLI arg --{key} has no value, so ignored")

    # Infer data types.
    dd = {k: infer_dtype(v) for k, v in d.items()}
    return dd