Version Bump

Calling add_group or add_persistent_group twice will add any new
settings defined.

Raise a ValueError if add_group or add_persistent_group is called during
a call to add_group or add_persistent_group.

.pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ repos:
     -   id: pyupgrade
         args: [--py38-plus]
 -   repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/mirrors-autopep8
-    rev: v2.0.0
+    rev: v2.0.1
     hooks:
     -   id: autopep8
 -   repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8
@@ -42,6 +42,6 @@ repos:
     -   id: flake8
         additional_dependencies: [flake8-encodings, flake8-warnings, flake8-builtins, flake8-length, flake8-print]
 -   repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/mirrors-mypy
-    rev: v0.991
+    rev: v1.0.1
     hooks:
     -   id: mypy

settngs.py

@@ -93,11 +93,35 @@ class Setting:
         metavar: str | None = None,
         dest: str | None = None,
         # ComicTagger
+        display_name: str = '',
         cmdline: bool = True,
         file: bool = True,
         group: str = '',
         exclusive: bool = False,
     ):
+        """
+
+        Args:
+            *names:       Passed directly to argparse
+            action:       Passed directly to argparse
+            nargs:        Passed directly to argparse
+            const:        Passed directly to argparse
+            default:      Passed directly to argparse
+            type:         Passed directly to argparse
+            choices:      Passed directly to argparse
+            required:     Passed directly to argparse
+            help:         Passed directly to argparse
+            metavar:      Passed directly to argparse, defaults to `dest` uppercased
+            dest:         This is the name used to retrieve the value from a `Config` object as a dictionary
+            display_name: This is not used by settngs. This is a human-readable name to be used when generating a GUI.
+                          Defaults to `dest`.
+            cmdline:      If this setting can be set via the commandline
+            file:         If this setting can be set via a file
+            group:        The group this option is in.
+                          This is an internal argument and should only be set by settngs
+            exclusive:    If this setting is exclusive to other settings in this group.
+                          This is an internal argument and should only be set by settngs
+        """
         if not names:
             raise ValueError('names must be specified')
         # We prefix the destination name used by argparse so that there are no conflicts
@@ -130,6 +154,7 @@ class Setting:
         self.argparse_args = args
         self.group = group
         self.exclusive = exclusive
+        self.display_name = display_name or dest
 
         self.argparse_kwargs = {
             'action': action,
@@ -150,6 +175,11 @@ class Setting:
     def __repr__(self) -> str:  # pragma: no cover
         return self.__str__()
 
+    def __eq__(self, other: object) -> bool:
+        if not isinstance(other, Setting):
+            return NotImplemented
+        return self.__dict__ == other.__dict__
+
     def get_dest(self, prefix: str, names: Sequence[str], dest: str | None) -> tuple[str, str, bool]:
         dest_name = None
         flag = False
@@ -496,13 +526,15 @@ class Manager:
 
     def add_group(self, name: str, group: Callable[[Manager], None], exclusive_group: bool = False) -> None:
         """
-        The primary way to add define options on this class
+        The primary way to add define options on this class.
 
         Args:
             name: The name of the group to define
             group: A function that registers individual options using :meth:`add_setting`
             exclusive_group: If this group is an argparse exclusive group
         """
+        if self.current_group_name != '':
+            raise ValueError('Sub groups are not allowed')
         self.current_group_name = name
         self.exclusive_group = exclusive_group
         group(self)
@@ -511,16 +543,23 @@ class Manager:
 
     def add_persistent_group(self, name: str, group: Callable[[Manager], None], exclusive_group: bool = False) -> None:
         """
-        The primary way to add define options on this class
+        The primary way to add define options on this class.
+        This group allows existing values to persist even if there is no corresponding setting defined for it.
 
         Args:
             name: The name of the group to define
             group: A function that registers individual options using :meth:`add_setting`
             exclusive_group: If this group is an argparse exclusive group
         """
+        if self.current_group_name != '':
+            raise ValueError('Sub groups are not allowed')
         self.current_group_name = name
         self.exclusive_group = exclusive_group
-        self.definitions[self.current_group_name] = Group(True, {})
+        if self.current_group_name in self.definitions:
+            if not self.definitions[self.current_group_name].persistent:
+                raise ValueError('Group already existis and is not persistent')
+        else:
+            self.definitions[self.current_group_name] = Group(True, {})
         group(self)
         self.current_group_name = ''
         self.exclusive_group = False

setup.cfg

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [metadata]
 name = settngs
-version = 0.5.0
+version = 0.6.0
 description = A library for managing settings
 long_description = file: README.md
 long_description_content_type = text/markdown

testing/settngs.py

@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ success = [
             'const': None,
             'default': None,
             'dest': 'test_setting',  # dest is calculated by Setting and is not used by argparse
+            'display_name': 'test_setting',  # defaults to dest
             'exclusive': False,
             'file': True,
             'group': 'tst',
@@ -117,6 +118,7 @@ success = [
             'const': None,
             'default': None,
             'dest': 'testing',  # dest is calculated by Setting and is not used by argparse
+            'display_name': 'testing',  # defaults to dest
             'exclusive': False,
             'file': True,
             'group': 'tst',
@@ -155,6 +157,7 @@ success = [
             'const': None,
             'default': None,
             'dest': 'test',  # dest is calculated by Setting and is not used by argparse
+            'display_name': 'test',  # defaults to dest
             'exclusive': False,
             'file': True,
             'group': 'tst',
@@ -194,6 +197,7 @@ success = [
             'const': None,
             'default': None,
             'dest': 'test',  # dest is calculated by Setting and is not used by argparse
+            'display_name': 'test',  # defaults to dest
             'exclusive': False,
             'file': True,
             'group': 'tst',
@@ -232,6 +236,7 @@ success = [
             'const': None,
             'default': None,
             'dest': 'test',
+            'display_name': 'test',  # defaults to dest
             'exclusive': False,
             'file': True,
             'group': 'tst',
@@ -270,6 +275,7 @@ success = [
             'const': None,
             'default': None,
             'dest': 'test',
+            'display_name': 'test',  # defaults to dest
             'exclusive': False,
             'file': True,
             'group': 'tst',
@@ -306,6 +312,7 @@ success = [
             'const': None,
             'default': None,
             'dest': 'test',
+            'display_name': 'test',  # defaults to dest
             'exclusive': False,
             'file': True,
             'group': '',

tests/settngs_test.py

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ from __future__ import annotations
 
 import argparse
 import json
+from collections import defaultdict
 
 import pytest
 
@@ -141,7 +142,7 @@ def test_clean_config(settngs_manager):
     assert cleaned['persistent']['hello'] == 'success'
 
 
-def test_parse_cmdline(settngs_manager, tmp_path):
+def test_parse_cmdline(settngs_manager):
     settngs_manager.add_group('tst', lambda parser: parser.add_setting('--test', default='hello', cmdline=True))
 
     normalized, _ = settngs_manager.parse_cmdline(['--test', 'success'])
@@ -150,7 +151,7 @@ def test_parse_cmdline(settngs_manager, tmp_path):
     assert normalized['tst']['test'] == 'success'
 
 
-def test_parse_cmdline_with_namespace(settngs_manager, tmp_path):
+def test_parse_cmdline_with_namespace(settngs_manager):
     settngs_manager.add_group('tst', lambda parser: parser.add_setting('--test', default='hello', cmdline=True))
 
     normalized, _ = settngs_manager.parse_cmdline(
@@ -286,6 +287,42 @@ def test_cli_explicit_default(settngs_manager, tmp_path):
     assert normalized['tst']['test'] == 'success'
 
 
+def test_adding_to_existing_group(settngs_manager, tmp_path):
+    def default_to_regular(d):
+        if isinstance(d, defaultdict):
+            d = {k: default_to_regular(v) for k, v in d.items()}
+        return d
+    settngs_manager.add_group('tst', lambda parser: parser.add_setting('--test', default='success'))
+    settngs_manager.add_group('tst', lambda parser: parser.add_setting('--test2', default='success'))
+
+    def tst(parser):
+        parser.add_setting('--test', default='success')
+        parser.add_setting('--test2', default='success')
+
+    settngs_manager2 = settngs.Manager()
+    settngs_manager2.add_group('tst', tst)
+
+    assert default_to_regular(settngs_manager.definitions) == default_to_regular(settngs_manager2.definitions)
+
+
+def test_adding_to_existing_persistent_group(settngs_manager, tmp_path):
+    def default_to_regular(d):
+        if isinstance(d, defaultdict):
+            d = {k: default_to_regular(v) for k, v in d.items()}
+        return d
+    settngs_manager.add_persistent_group('tst', lambda parser: parser.add_setting('--test', default='success'))
+    settngs_manager.add_persistent_group('tst', lambda parser: parser.add_setting('--test2', default='success'))
+
+    def tst(parser):
+        parser.add_setting('--test', default='success')
+        parser.add_setting('--test2', default='success')
+
+    settngs_manager2 = settngs.Manager()
+    settngs_manager2.add_persistent_group('tst', tst)
+
+    assert default_to_regular(settngs_manager.definitions) == default_to_regular(settngs_manager2.definitions)
+
+
 def test_example(capsys, tmp_path, monkeypatch):
     monkeypatch.chdir(tmp_path)
     settings_file = tmp_path / 'settings.json'