Make speakable descriptions of objects

[psychemedia]

Can we make natural language descriptions of objects?

# via claude.ai and chatgpt, plus a bit of me...
def speakable(obj, is_nested=False):
    if isinstance(obj, dict):
        return speakable_dict(obj, is_nested)
    elif isinstance(obj, list):
        return speakable_list(obj)
    elif isinstance(obj, tuple):
        return speakable_tuple(obj)
    elif isinstance(obj, set):
        return speakable_set(obj)
    elif isinstance(obj, str):
        return f'"{obj}"'
    elif isinstance(obj, bool):
        return f'is a boolean {obj}'
    elif isinstance(obj, int):
        return f'is an integer {obj}'
    elif isinstance(obj, float):
        return f'is a float {obj}'
    elif obj is None:
        return "None"
    else:
        return f'an object of type {type(obj).__name__} made up of {obj}'

def speakable_dict(d, is_nested=False):
    result = []
    result.append(f"is a dictionary with {len(d)} keys: ")
    
    for i, (key, value) in enumerate(d.items()):
        result.append(f'key "{key}" {speakable(value, is_nested=True)}')
        if i < len(d) - 1:
            result.append(", ")
    _nested = "nested" if is_nested else ""
    result.append(f"; and that's it for the {_nested} dict")
    
    return " ".join(result)

def speakable_list(lst):
    result = [f"is a list with {len(lst)} items: "]
    result.append(", ".join(speakable(item, is_nested=True) for item in lst))
    result.append("; and that's it for the list")
    return " ".join(result)

def speakable_tuple(tpl):
    result = [f"is a tuple with {len(tpl)} items: "]
    result.append(", ".join(speakable(item, is_nested=True) for item in tpl))
    result.append("; and that's it for the tuple")
    return " ".join(result)

def speakable_set(st):
    result = [f"is a set with {len(st)} items: "]
    result.append(", ".join(speakable(item, is_nested=True) for item in st))
    result.append("; and that's it for the set")
    return " ".join(result)

Then eg:

arb_dict={"name":"john", "age":21, "likes":["dogs", "cats"], kids:{"sons":[adam}, deceased: True}

and: speakable(arb_dict) or f"arb_dict is {speakable(arb_dict)}".

To get the variable name, we'd need some hacky trickery; eg something like https://github.com/pwwang/python-varname

[psychemedia]

Also worth remembering https://github.com/python-humanize/humanize