Source Code

This notebook covers how to load source code files using a special approach with language parsing: each top-level function and class in the code is loaded into separate documents. Any remaining code top-level code outside the already loaded functions and classes will be loaded into a separate document.

This approach can potentially improve the accuracy of QA models over source code. Currently, the supported languages for code parsing are Python and JavaScript. The language used for parsing can be configured, along with the minimum number of lines required to activate the splitting based on syntax.

! pip install esprima

import warnings

warnings.filterwarnings("ignore")
from pprint import pprint

from langchain.text_splitter import Language
from langchain_community.document_loaders.generic import GenericLoader
from langchain_community.document_loaders.parsers import LanguageParser

loader = GenericLoader.from_filesystem(
    "./example_data/source_code",
    glob="*",
    suffixes=[".py", ".js"],
    parser=LanguageParser(),
)
docs = loader.load()

len(docs)

for document in docs:
    pprint(document.metadata)

{'content_type': 'functions_classes',
 'language': <Language.PYTHON: 'python'>,
 'source': 'example_data/source_code/example.py'}
{'content_type': 'functions_classes',
 'language': <Language.PYTHON: 'python'>,
 'source': 'example_data/source_code/example.py'}
{'content_type': 'simplified_code',
 'language': <Language.PYTHON: 'python'>,
 'source': 'example_data/source_code/example.py'}
{'content_type': 'functions_classes',
 'language': <Language.JS: 'js'>,
 'source': 'example_data/source_code/example.js'}
{'content_type': 'functions_classes',
 'language': <Language.JS: 'js'>,
 'source': 'example_data/source_code/example.js'}
{'content_type': 'simplified_code',
 'language': <Language.JS: 'js'>,
 'source': 'example_data/source_code/example.js'}

print("\n\n--8<--\n\n".join([document.page_content for document in docs]))

class MyClass:
    def __init__(self, name):
        self.name = name

    def greet(self):
        print(f"Hello, {self.name}!")

--8<--

def main():
    name = input("Enter your name: ")
    obj = MyClass(name)
    obj.greet()

--8<--

# Code for: class MyClass:


# Code for: def main():


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

--8<--

class MyClass {
  constructor(name) {
    this.name = name;
  }

  greet() {
    console.log(`Hello, ${this.name}!`);
  }
}

--8<--

function main() {
  const name = prompt("Enter your name:");
  const obj = new MyClass(name);
  obj.greet();
}

--8<--

// Code for: class MyClass {

// Code for: function main() {

main();

The parser can be disabled for small files.

The parameter parser_threshold indicates the minimum number of lines that the source code file must have to be segmented using the parser.

loader = GenericLoader.from_filesystem(
    "./example_data/source_code",
    glob="*",
    suffixes=[".py"],
    parser=LanguageParser(language=Language.PYTHON, parser_threshold=1000),
)
docs = loader.load()

len(docs)

print(docs[0].page_content)

class MyClass:
    def __init__(self, name):
        self.name = name

    def greet(self):
        print(f"Hello, {self.name}!")


def main():
    name = input("Enter your name: ")
    obj = MyClass(name)
    obj.greet()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Splitting

Additional splitting could be needed for those functions, classes, or scripts that are too big.

loader = GenericLoader.from_filesystem(
    "./example_data/source_code",
    glob="*",
    suffixes=[".js"],
    parser=LanguageParser(language=Language.JS),
)
docs = loader.load()

from langchain.text_splitter import (
    Language,
    RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter,
)

js_splitter = RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter.from_language(
    language=Language.JS, chunk_size=60, chunk_overlap=0
)

result = js_splitter.split_documents(docs)

len(result)

print("\n\n--8<--\n\n".join([document.page_content for document in result]))

class MyClass {
  constructor(name) {
    this.name = name;

--8<--

}

--8<--

greet() {
    console.log(`Hello, ${this.name}!`);
  }
}

--8<--

function main() {
  const name = prompt("Enter your name:");

--8<--

const obj = new MyClass(name);
  obj.greet();
}

--8<--

// Code for: class MyClass {

// Code for: function main() {

--8<--

main();

Splitting​

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