Method _parse

beets/dbcore/db.py:713–718

Parse a string as a value for the given key.

(cls, key, string: str)

    @classmethod
    def _parse(cls, key, string: str) -> Any:
        """Parse a string as a value for the given key."""
        if not isinstance(string, str):
            raise TypeError("_parse() argument must be a string")

        return cls._type(key).parse(string)

    def set_parse(self, key, string: str):
        """Set the object's key to a value represented by a string."""