Mergers

Defines a collection of merger functions.

concatenate(delimiter='-')

Creates a function that concatenates a list of values with a delimiter.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description	Default
delimiter	str	The delimiter to use when concatenating the values. Defaults to "-".	'-'

Returns:

Type	Description
Callable[[list[Any]], str]	Callable[[list[Any]], str]: A function that concatenates a list of values with the delimiter.

merge_overlapping_strings(delimiter='\n', min_overlap=1, max_window=200)

Creates a function that merges a list of strings, handling common prefixes and overlaps.

The created function will: 1. Identify and remove any common prefix shared by the strings. 2. Process each pair of adjacent strings to remove overlapping strings. 3. Join the cleaned strings together, including the common prefix at the beginning.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description	Default
delimiter	str	The delimiter to use when merging the values. Defaults to "\n".	'\n'
min_overlap	int	Minimum overlap length to consider valid. Defaults to 1.	1
max_window	int	Maximum window size to search for overlaps. Defaults to 200.	200

Returns:

Type	Description
Callable[[list[str]], str]	Callable[[list[str]], str]: A function that merges a list of strings, handling common prefixes and overlaps.

pick_first(values)

Picks the first value from a list of values.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description	Default
values	list[Any]	The values to pick from.	required

Returns:

Name	Type	Description
Any	Any	The first value from the list.

pick_last(values)

Picks the last value from a list of values.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description	Default
values	list[Any]	The values to pick from.	required

Returns:

Name	Type	Description
Any	Any	The last value from the list.