Type guessing

BiblioPixel can often guess the name of the class you mean from the file or module that it’s in. This saves a lot of repetitive typing.

This happens in two cases:

• If there is only one class in the file or module
• or if there is exactly one class in the file or module whose name is “basically the same” as the file or module name

Two names are basically the same if they are the same when you throw away all punctuation and make them lower case - so HelloWorld, HELLO_WORLD and hello_world are canonically the same.

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Example 1: Simple animation, Absolute Typename

animation: bibliopixel.animation.sequence.Sequence

For convenience, if the whole class section is a string, it’s the typename:

Example 2: Relative Typename

animation: .sequence.Sequence

Example 3: Relative Typename with type guessing

animation: .sequence

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shape: [64, 14]
animation:
  typename: $bpa.strip.PartyMode
  colors: [blue, violet, magenta]