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Source code for airflow.providers.standard.decorators.external_python

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from __future__ import annotations

from collections.abc import Callable
from typing import TYPE_CHECKING

from airflow.providers.standard.version_compat import AIRFLOW_V_3_0_PLUS

if AIRFLOW_V_3_0_PLUS:
    from airflow.sdk.bases.decorator import task_decorator_factory
else:
    from airflow.decorators.base import task_decorator_factory  # type: ignore[no-redef]
from airflow.providers.standard.decorators.python import _PythonDecoratedOperator
from airflow.providers.standard.operators.python import ExternalPythonOperator

if TYPE_CHECKING:
    from airflow.sdk.bases.decorator import TaskDecorator


class _PythonExternalDecoratedOperator(_PythonDecoratedOperator, ExternalPythonOperator):
    """Wraps a Python callable and captures args/kwargs when called for execution."""

    template_fields = ExternalPythonOperator.template_fields
    custom_operator_name: str = "@task.external_python"


[docs] def external_python_task( python: str | None = None, python_callable: Callable | None = None, multiple_outputs: bool | None = None, **kwargs, ) -> TaskDecorator: """ Wrap a callable into an Airflow operator to run via a Python virtual environment. Accepts kwargs for operator kwarg. Can be reused in a single DAG. This function is only used during type checking or auto-completion. :meta private: :param python: Full path string (file-system specific) that points to a Python binary inside a virtualenv that should be used (in ``VENV/bin`` folder). Should be absolute path (so usually start with "/" or "X:/" depending on the filesystem/os used). :param python_callable: Function to decorate :param multiple_outputs: If set to True, the decorated function's return value will be unrolled to multiple XCom values. Dict will unroll to XCom values with its keys as XCom keys. Defaults to False. """ return task_decorator_factory( python=python, python_callable=python_callable, multiple_outputs=multiple_outputs, decorated_operator_class=_PythonExternalDecoratedOperator, **kwargs, )

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