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Currently pylibcudf maintains handwritten .pyi annotations. We want to generate these annotations from source files. In order to do so, the source files must contain all annotation information that cannot be inferred from the Cython typing. Currently all of that information is only maintained in the handwritten .pyi files. This PR migrates all of that typing information to annotations in the .pyx source files. By doing so, we can generate fully descriptive type stubs.

Some specific changes in this PR:

  • Adds public typing protocols and aliases for CUDA stream-like and array-interface inputs.
  • Annotates stream parameters, array-interface inputs, collection/container inputs, IO source/sink contracts, and selected domain aliases.
  • Adds eligible Python def/property return annotations where Cython accepts them.

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@github-actions github-actions Bot added Python Affects Python cuDF API. pylibcudf Issues specific to the pylibcudf package labels Aug 13, 2026
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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Documentation
    • Added comprehensive type annotations across the Python API, including CUDA streams, columns, tables, metadata, inputs, and return values.
    • Added public typing support for CUDA and standard array interfaces.
    • Improved annotations for file-format readers and writers, text processing, joins, sorting, aggregation, and string operations.
    • Added clearer type definitions for CUDA stream-like objects and related data structures.
  • Chores
    • Updated copyright attributions where applicable.
    • Runtime behavior remains unchanged.
  • Tests
    • Refined handling for environment-sensitive and expected-failure test cases.

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The PR adds static type annotations across pylibcudf Cython APIs. It defines shared CUDA stream, array-interface, metadata, and recursive structure types. Existing defaults, control flow, native calls, and runtime behavior remain unchanged.

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Public API typing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Typing foundations and core APIs
python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/typing.py, python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/*.pyx
Adds CudaStreamLike, array-interface protocols, typed collections, return annotations, and optional stream annotations across core APIs.
IO and metadata contracts
python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/io/*
Adds typed reader, writer, source, sink, metadata, stream, and return declarations.
Text and string APIs
python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/strings/*, python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/nvtext/*
Annotates optional CUDA streams and selected mapping, sequence, and collection parameters.
Supporting exports and test configuration
python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/__init__.py, docs/cudf/source/conf.py, python/cudf/cudf/pandas/scripts/pandas-testing-plugin.py
Exports the typing module, suppresses Sphinx warnings for typing aliases, and separates environment-sensitive tests into non-strict expected failures.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to 67368

The PR’s generated annotations may reject valid stream-like inputs in public Scalar APIs, while Table.from_arrow still casts an unnormalized stream without validation, potentially causing runtime failures for some callers. These current-head issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Possibly related PRs

  • NVIDIA/cudf#23645: Migrates corresponding libcudf APIs to cuda::stream_ref, complementing the Python CudaStreamLike annotations.

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160-164: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Align all public Scalar stream annotations.

scalar.pyi declares five methods with CudaStreamLike | None, but scalar.pyx still declares Stream | None. Update the five source annotations before regenerating the stub. Regeneration should also preserve is_valid’s default None.

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In `@python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/scalar.pyx` around lines 160 - 164, Update the
five public Scalar method annotations in scalar.pyx, including Scalar.is_valid,
from Stream | None to CudaStreamLike | None; retain None as the default value
for is_valid, then regenerate scalar.pyi so its declarations remain aligned.

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Inline comments:
In `@python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/column.pyx`:
- Around line 88-104: Update the module’s __all__ declaration to include the
public typing symbols ArrayInterfaceBase, SupportsCudaArrayInterface, and
SupportsArrayInterface, preserving all existing exports.

In `@python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/concatenate.pyx`:
- Around line 28-32: Added typing-contract tests and representative unit
benchmarks across the cohort: in
python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/concatenate.pyx:28-32 cover correlated Column/Table
typing and concatenate benchmarking; contiguous_split.pyx:169-174 cover
ChunkedPack.create’s return type and packing; copying.pyx:458-462 and :519-523
cover slice and split element typing; datetime.pyx:58 cover generated stream
annotations and a representative benchmark; experimental/_join_streams.pyx:23-25
cover stream-like inputs and stream joining; expressions.pyx:479 cover the
Expression return contract and construction; and filling.pyx:49 cover generated
stream annotations and a representative operation. Use the existing test and
benchmark conventions, including generated-stub/runtime validation.

Apply the same fix in `@python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/nvtext/replace.pyx` at line 36:
Representative stream-like typing and benchmark coverage.

Apply the same fix in `@python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/utils.pyx` at line 58: Shared
coverage for stream, alias, and collection annotations.

Apply the same fix in `@python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/aggregation.pyx` at line 431:
Generated quantile stub and representative benchmark coverage.

Apply the same fix in `@python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/datetime.pyx` at line 58:
Generated datetime stubs and representative operation coverage.

Apply the same fix in `@python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/filling.pyx` at line 49:
Generated filling stubs and representative operation coverage.

Apply the same fix in `@python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/nvtext/generate_ngrams.pyx` at
line 37: Stream-like generated signature and runtime coverage.

Apply the same fix in `@python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/io/json.pyx` around lines 72 -
73: Recursive alias and accepted input contract coverage.

Apply the same fix in `@python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/join.pyx` around lines 24 - 27:
Compiled import and generated stream signature coverage.

Apply the same fix in `@python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/merge.pyx` around lines 27 -
32: Generated stream and ordering signature coverage.

Apply the same fix in `@python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/strings/char_types.pyx` around
lines 14 - 17: Representative string API typing coverage.

In `@python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/io/parquet.pyx`:
- Around line 689-694: Add return annotations to read_parquet in
python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/io/parquet.pyx at lines 689-694,
ChunkedParquetWriter.from_options in python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/io/parquet.pyx
at lines 791-793, and OrcChunkedWriter.from_options in
python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/io/orc.pyx at lines 732-734. Match each annotation to
the corresponding declared return type in parquet.pyi or orc.pyi, preserving the
existing implementations.

In `@python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/io/types.pyx`:
- Around line 688-695: Update the SinkInfo.__init__ sinks parameter and its
corresponding types.pyi declaration so both accept the advertised Sequence
variants, including tuples, by removing the list-only Cython annotation;
preserve the existing runtime validation and keep documentation consistent with
the shared contract.

In `@python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/strings/translate.pyx`:
- Around line 53-56: Align the Cython runtime boundary with the public Mapping
annotation by changing the chars_table parameter from dict to object in both
public function declarations and _table_to_c_table, then ensure conversion
accepts Mapping implementations such as UserDict. Add coverage using UserDict
for both public translation functions while preserving existing dict behavior.

In `@python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/table.pyx`:
- Line 135: Update both return paths that call from_table_view_of_arbitrary to
pass the normalized _stream value instead of the original stream argument,
ensuring objects implementing __cuda_stream__ are converted before the callee’s
unchecked cast.

In `@python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/types.pyx`:
- Around line 29-31: Update the PyarrowDataType alias in types.pyx to represent
PyArrow DataType instances rather than class objects: use pa.DataType under
TYPE_CHECKING and provide a runtime fallback that avoids importing optional
PyArrow. Ensure the checked-in types.pyi exposes the same instance-based alias
for from_arrow parameters and to_arrow returns.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/scalar.pyx`:
- Around line 160-164: Update the five public Scalar method annotations in
scalar.pyx, including Scalar.is_valid, from Stream | None to CudaStreamLike |
None; retain None as the default value for is_valid, then regenerate scalar.pyi
so its declarations remain aligned.
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question: Some of these changes don't introduce a python-like type-annotation for method arguments. Is that because it is not necessary because the type stub generation already knows how to turn ParquetReaderOptions options into options: ParquetReaderOptions?

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Yes exactly. We only need to add annotations where stubgen cannot infer the value (or where we want a more detailed annotation than what is produced automatically).

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Add coverage for the new collection policy.

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