# numpydantic

Type and shape validation and serialization for numpy arrays in pydantic models

This package was picked out of [nwb-linkml](https://github.com/p2p-ld/nwb-linkml/), a 
translation of the [NWB](https://www.nwb.org/) schema language and data format to
linkML and pydantic models.

It does two primary things:
- **Provide types** - Annotations (based on [npytyping](https://github.com/ramonhagenaars/nptyping))
  for specifying numpy arrays in pydantic models, and
- **Generate models from LinkML** - extend the LinkML pydantic generator to create models that 
  that use the [linkml-arrays](https://github.com/linkml/linkml-arrays) syntax

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