Source code for evalml.model_family.utils

"""Utility methods for EvalML's model families."""
from evalml.model_family.model_family import ModelFamily


def handle_model_family(model_family):
    """Handles model_family by either returning the ModelFamily or converting from a string.

    Args:
        model_family (str or ModelFamily): Model type that needs to be handled.

    Returns:
        ModelFamily

    Raises:
        KeyError: If input is not a valid model family.
        ValueError: If input is not a string or ModelFamily object.
    """
    if isinstance(model_family, str):
        try:
            tpe = ModelFamily[model_family.upper()]
            return tpe
        except KeyError:
            raise KeyError("Model family '{}' does not exist".format(model_family))
    if isinstance(model_family, ModelFamily):
        return model_family
    raise ValueError("`handle_model_family` was not passed a str or ModelFamily object")