From cfa64a8ca30d0ca0c245ef17120008b256bcf159 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Hentschel <johannes.hentschel@epfl.ch>
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2023 03:29:50 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] enables initializing DimcatConfig with just a string as
 positional argument, which is intepreted as dtype

---
 src/dimcat/base.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/dimcat/base.py b/src/dimcat/base.py
index 605c5ef8..6e33ae49 100644
--- a/src/dimcat/base.py
+++ b/src/dimcat/base.py
@@ -431,6 +431,8 @@ def __init__(
     ):
         if isinstance(options, DimcatConfig):
             options = options.options
+        elif isinstance(options, str) and dtype is None:
+            options = dict(dtype=options)
         options = dict(options, **kwargs)
         if dtype is None:
             if "dtype" not in options: