Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. Versions follow Semantic Versioning (<major>.<minor>.<patch>). Backward incompatible (breaking) changes will only be introduced in major versions with advance notice in the Deprecated section of releases.

The semantic versioning only considers the public API as described in :ref:`api-ref`. Components not mentioned in :ref:`api-ref` or different import paths are considered internals and can change in minor and patch releases.

v4.35.1 (2024-12-??)

Fixed

Help for Protocol types not working correctly (#645).
Adding attrs.define dataclasses with nested dataclasses that are marked with attrs.field (such as for a default factory) are not parsed correctly (#643).
Nested dataclass with init=False not working correctly (#650).

v4.35.0 (2024-12-16)

Added

Support for print config argument to reuse the name of the config argument by using %s (#630).

Changed

Argument groups created from dataclass-like that have zero configurable arguments no longer adds a config loader (#634).
The CLASS_PATH_OR_NAME for subclass help is now optional and if not given the help of the base class is printed (#628).

Fixed

Account for change in ArgumentParser._parse_known_args since Python 3.12.8 and 3.13.1 (#644).

Deprecated

add_dataclass_arguments is deprecated and will be removed in v5.0.0. Instead use add_class_arguments (#634).
From v5.0.0 the print config argument will by default reuse the name of the config argument as --print_%s instead of being always --print_config (#630).

v4.34.1 (2024-12-02)

Fixed

List of dataclass with nested dataclass attribute fails to parse (#625).
NotRequired incorrectly having inspect._empty as default (#625).
Callable protocols failing to parse (#637).
Help incorrectly showing protocols in known subclasses (#638).

v4.34.0 (2024-11-08)

Added

Support for PEP 692, i.e., Unpack[TypedDict] annotations for **kwargs (#586).

Fixed

Empty tuples are now parsed correctly instead of raising an error (#592).
Required and optional TypedDict keys are now correctly inferred when one inherits one TypedDict from another with different totality (#597).
Callables that return class not considering previous values (#603).
Custom instantiators not working for nested dependency injection (#608).
Failure when resolving forward references from dataclass parameter types (#611).
Fix callable protocol inheritance. (#599).

Changed

Callables that return class with class default now normalizes the default to a subclass spec with class_path (#603).

v4.33.2 (2024-10-07)

Fixed

Fix parse_argv_item to address the behavior change in argparse since Python 3.12.7 (#591).

v4.33.1 (2024-09-26)

Fixed

Use jsonnet-sdist for python 3.13 to be allowed to push package to pypi (#584).

v4.33.0 (2024-09-25)

Added

Support for Python 3.13 (#554).
Support for NotRequired and Required annotations for TypedDict keys (#571).
dataclass types now accept class_path and init_args as value (#581).

Fixed

Callable type with subclass return not showing the --*.help option (#567).
Forward referenced types not compatible with Type typehint (#576).
Subclass nested in Iterable makes help fail (#578).
Literal mixing enum values and strings failing to parse (#580).

Changed

Removed shtab experimental warning (#561).
For consistency add_subclass_arguments now sets default None instead of SUPPRESS (#568).
Removed support for python 3.7 (#583).

v4.32.1 (2024-08-23)

Fixed

dict types not correctly forwarding previous nested values when parsing (#559).
List type incorrectly using defaults from previous item (#560).
--print_shtab not adding file completer for _ActionConfigLoad (#562).
parser_mode not inherited by nested parsers (#564).

v4.32.0 (2024-07-19)

Added

Support for MappingProxyType as a type and as default for mapping types (#540).
Support for OrderedDict as a type (#545).
New function get_loader to get the current loader for a given parser mode (#479 comment, #536 comment).

Fixed

dump failing when a link target requires serialization and skip_link_targets=False (#542).
default_config_files making parse fail for subcommands and nested subclass types (lightning-forums#5963).
Fixes related to transformers PreTrainedModel.from_pretrained (lightning#19863 comment):
- Import path of inherited classmethod not resolving correctly (#548).
- Resolved parameters leading to multiple values for keyword argument (#551).
- Function with return type a class in class_path in some cases fails with unexpected instantiate parameter error (#551).
- Ignore incorrectly resolved config_file_name parameter for transformers model from_pretrained (#551).

v4.31.0 (2024-06-27)

Added

Support async functions and methods in CLI (#531).
Support for Protocol types only accepting exact matching signature of public methods (#526).

Fixed

Resolving of import paths for some torch functions not working (#535).
--print_shtab crashing on failure to get signature parameters from one class (lightning#10858 comment).

Changed

Now --*.help output shows options without init_args (#533).

v4.30.0 (2024-06-18)

Added

Allow adding config argument with action="config" avoiding need to import action class (#512).
Allow providing a function with return type a class in class_path (lightning#13613).
Automatic --print_shtab option when shtab is installed, providing completions for many type hints without the need to modify code (#528).

Fixed

Parsing incorrectly provides file content when type is a union with a subclass, PathLike and string (#516).
--print_config failing in some cases (#517).
Callable that returns class not using required parameter default from lambda (#523).
Failing to parse list of dataclasses with nested optional dataclass (#527).
List of union of classes not accepted by add_subclass_arguments in python>=3.11 (#522).
Optional pydantic model failing to parse with __pydantic_private__ error (#521).

v4.29.0 (2024-05-24)

Added

Support for TypedDict (#457).
Directly providing a dict with parameters or a single parameter to a subclass or callable with class return now implicitly tries using the base class as class_path if not abstract (#505).

Fixed

Parameter resolving falling back to assumptions resolver for optional Union types (#498).
Nested parameters failing to parse from command line when value includes space (#499).
format_usage() not working (#501).
Not able to modify init args for callable with class return and default class (#504).
Nested values not validated when type not subclass and nested keys for subclass (#503 comment).
Dataclass with nested optional dataclass and default field factory failing to parse (#507).

Changed

When parsing fails due to unexpected key, now there are specific error messages for the cases of groups and subcommands (#506).

v4.28.0 (2024-04-17)

Added

Support for "-" as value for Path class initialization so that user can ask to use standard input/output instead of file (#463).
Option in CLI to provide subcommands help when components given in a dict (litgpt#996 comment).
TypeAliasType support added (#480).

Fixed

Account for breaking change in argparse.ArgumentParser._parse_optional affecting python >=3.11.9 and >=3.12.3 (#484).
lazy_instance not working for callable classes (#473 comment).
Callable type with class return and zero arguments not working (lightning#19574 comment).
Attrs and Pydantic 2 dataclasses with non-init fields fail to instantiate (#480).
Default values/factories for Pydantic 2 dataclasses with Field initializers are not right (#480).
Annotated fields in dataclass-likes (eg FastAPI types) resolve incorrectly (#480).

v4.27.7 (2024-03-21)

Fixed

Regression from 14456c2 that prevented **kwargs parameter resolving when an Optional[Callable] type is used (#473).

v4.27.6 (2024-03-15)

Fixed

Failure when getting parameters from a class created with class_from_function from a classmethod without parameter types (#454).
Subsubcommand parse failing when default_env=True (#465).
Optional callable that returns a class instance with a lambda default, produces an invalid string default.
dataclass single parameter change incorrectly resetting previous values (#464).
Add function signature failing when conditionally calling different functions (#467).

v4.27.5 (2024-02-12)

Fixed

Importable class instances fail to parse and serialize (#446).
Failure when trying to pickle instances created with lazy_instance.
Confusing error message when creating a link with a target that is already a target of another link.

v4.27.4 (2024-02-01)

Fixed

argcomplete not working when type and choices given (#442).
Confusing error message when CLI is used with a class that defines a subcommand method (#430 comment).
CLI crashes when a method has a config parameter. Due to redundancy, --config argument should not be added.

v4.27.3 (2024-01-26)

Fixed

Argument links not working for target init_args in an optional list (#433).
Signature parameter default that doesn't match its type failing on instantiation and serialization (lightning#19289 comment).

v4.27.2 (2024-01-18)

Fixed

reconplogger's logger level being unexpectedly overwritten.
Signature parameter default value that doesn't match its type considered invalid (lightning#19289 comment).

v4.27.1 (2023-11-23)

Fixed

Confusing error message when adding signature parameters that conflict with existing arguments.
Deprecation warnings not printing the correct file and line of code.
sub_configs=True not working for callable types that return a class (#419).

v4.27.0 (2023-11-02)

Added

Support for pydantic's SecretStr type.
New SecretStr type in jsonargparse.typing to provide secret support without additional dependency.

Fixed

Links applied on parse failing when source is a class with a nested callable.

v4.26.2 (2023-10-26)

Fixed

Failure to parse subclass added via add_argument and required arg as link target.
choices working incorrectly when nargs is +, * or number.
Unable link two deep level arguments sharing the same root class (#297).

v4.26.1 (2023-10-23)

Fixed

Failures when choices is a dict_keys object and value non-hashable.
AST resolver not using the correct component globals in some cases.

v4.26.0 (2023-10-19)

Added

Support for on parse argument links with target subclasses in a list (#394, lightning#18161).
AST resolver now supports some local import cases.

Fixed

Failures with subcommands and default_config_files when keys are repeated (#160).
Key related errors printing messages within single quotes.
Choices not validated when value comes from config file (#404).

Changed

Subclass types no longer allow class instance to be set as default (lightning#18731).
JSONARGPARSE_DEBUG must now have a non-empty value to enable debug mode.

v4.25.0 (2023-09-25)

Added

Support for user-defined generic types (#366).
New function extend_base_type for easy creation and registering of custom types that extend a base type (#195).
Support for Annotated types either ignoring the metadata or using it for validation in case of pydantic types (#384).
Support for Python 3.12.

Fixed

--print_config fails when parser has shallow links.
Argument links unnecessarily applied when --print_config used and parser has subcommands (#311).
Parsing fails when data type is a Callable with multiple input arguments (#372).
Postponed annotations not working for dataclasses.
Unsupported pop/get default incorrectly sets default as None (lightning#18616).
Pydantic models and dataclasses not working for pydantic>=2.0.0 (#361).

Changed

Provide a more informative error message to remind user to select and provide a subcommand when a subcommand is required but not given (#371).
Now when an argument link compute_fn fails, the error message will say this (#311).
add_subclass_arguments now shows a better error message when an empty tuple is given (lightning#18546).
Document the requirements for creating and using custom types (#195).
Parameters with default and without type, now get as type Union[type(default), Any].
Removed support for python 3.6.

v4.24.1 (2023-09-06)

Fixed

Remove private linked_targets parameter from API Reference (#317).
Dataclass nested in list not setting defaults (#357).
AST resolver kwargs.pop() with conflicting defaults not setting the conditional default (#362).
ActionJsonSchema not setting correctly defaults when schema uses oneOf.
Recommended print_config steps not working when default_config_files used due to the config file initially being empty (#367).

v4.24.0 (2023-08-23)

Added

New option in dump for including link targets.
Support decimal.Decimal as a type.
CLI now accepts components as a dict, such that the keys define names of the subcommands (#334).
Resolve types that use TYPE_CHECKING blocks (#337 comment).
Improved resolving of nested forward references in types.
The ext_vars for an ActionJsonnet argument can now have a default.
New method ArgumentParser.add_instantiator that enables developers to implement custom instantiation (#170).

Deprecated

ActionJsonnetExtVars is deprecated and will be removed in v5.0.0. Instead use type=dict.

v4.23.1 (2023-08-04)

Fixed

save fails when a link target is a required parameter nested in a subclass (#332).
typing.Literal types skipped when typing_extensions is installed (lightning#18184).
class_from_function failing when called on the same function multiple times (lightning#18180).
Prevent showing errors when running ps on windows.

v4.23.0 (2023-07-27)

Added

Classes created with class_from_function now have a valid import path (#309).

Fixed

Invalid environment variable names when env_prefix is derived from a prog containing dashes.
Pylance unable to resolve types from jsonargparse.typing.
Inconsistent ARG: and missing ENV: in help when default_env=True.
typing.Literal types skipped on python 3.9 when typing_extensions is installed (lightning#18125 comment).

Changed

Subcommands main parser help changes:
- Set notation of subcommands choices now only included in usage.
- In subcommands section, now each subcommand is always shown separately, including the name, and if available aliases and help.
- When default_env=True include subcommand environment variable name.

v4.22.1 (2023-07-07)

Fixed

Parameter without default and type optional incorrectly added as a required argument (#312).
class_from_function not failing when return annotation is missing.
add_subclass_arguments with single base class and no docstring, incorrectly shown as tuple in help.
When all arguments of a group are derived from links, a config load option is incorrectly shown in help.
Printing help fails for parsers that have a link whose target is an argument lacking type and help.

v4.22.0 (2023-06-23)

Added

Parameters that receive a path now also accept os.PathLike type.
class_from_function now supports func_return parameter to specify the return type of the function (lightning-flash#1564 comment).
Support for postponed evaluation of annotations PEP 563 from __future__ import annotations (#120).
Backport types in python<=3.9 to support PEP 585 and 604 for postponed evaluation of annotations (#120).
Support for range as a type.

Fixed

Regular expressions vulnerable to polynomial runtime due to backtracking.
attrs fields with factory default causes parse to fail (#299).
Stop subclass dive if you hit bad import (#304).

Changed

Added _ prefix to module names to be explicit about non-public API.

Deprecated

Importing from original non-public module paths (without _ prefix) now gives a DeprecationWarning. From v5.0.0 these imports will fail.

v4.21.2 (2023-06-08)

Fixed

Failure for nested argument in optional dataclass type (#289).
Argument links applied on parse silently ignored when the source validation fails.

v4.21.1 (2023-05-09)

Fixed

AST resolver not working for dict used in a method when the dict is created using the curly braces syntax.
Failure on multiple deep arguments linked on instantiation (#275).

v4.21.0 (2023-04-21)

Added

Support for dataclasses nested in a type (#243).
Support for pydantic models and attrs define similar to dataclasses.
Support for pydantic types.
Backport type stubs in python<=3.9 to support PEP 585 and 604 syntax.

Fixed

str parameter in subclass incorrectly parsed as dict with implicit null value (#262).
Wrong error indentation for subclass in union (lightning#17254).
dataclass from pydantic not working (#100 comment).
add_dataclass_arguments not forwarding sub_configs parameter.
Failure to instantiate nested class group without arguments (lightning#17263).

Changed

Switched from setup.cfg to pyproject.toml for configuration.
Removed build_sphinx from setup.py and documented how to build.
Include enum members in error when invalid value is given (lightning#17247).
The signatures extras now installs the typing-extensions package on python<=3.9.
CLI now when given a class without methods, the class instance is returned.

Deprecated

Support for python 3.6 will be removed in v5.0.0. New features added in >=4.21.0 releases are not guaranteed to work in python 3.6.

v4.20.1 (2023-03-30)

Fixed

Dump not working for partial callable with return instance (lightning#15340 comment).
Allow discard_init_args_on_class_path_change to handle more nested contexts (#247).
Failure with dataclasses that have field with init=False (#252).
Failure when setting individual dict key values for subclasses and .init_args. is included in argument (#251).

v4.20.0 (2023-02-20)

Added

CLI support for callable class instances (#238).
add_dataclass_arguments now supports the fail_untyped parameter (#241).

Fixed

add_subcommands fails when parser has required argument and default config available (#232).

Changed

When parsing fails, now argparse.ArgumentError is raised instead of ParserError.
Improved error messages when fail_untyped=True (#137).
CLI no longer uses the module's docstring as main parser description (#245).

Deprecated

Path skip_check parameter is deprecated and will be removed in v5.0.0. Instead use as type str or os.PathLike.
Modifying Path attributes is deprecated. In v5.0.0 they will be properties without a setter and two renamed: rel_path -> relative and abs_path -> absolute.
ActionPathList is deprecated and will be removed in v5.0.0. Instead use as type List[<path_type>] with enable_path=True.
ArgumentParser.error_handler is deprecated and will be removed in v5.0.0. Instead use the new exit_on_error parameter from argparse.

v4.19.0 (2022-12-27)

Added

CLI now supports the fail_untyped and parser_class parameters.
bytes and bytearray registered on first use and decodes from standard Base64.
Support getting the import path of variables in modules, e.g. random.randint.
Specific error messages for when an argument link uses as source the target of a previous parse link and vice versa (#208).
New resolver that identifies parameter types from stub files *.pyi.
Support for relative paths within remote fsspec/url config files.
New context manager methods for path types: open and relative_path_context.
Path types now implement the os.PathLike protocol.
New path mode cc to not require the parent directory to exists but that it can be created.
The parent parser class is now used to create internal parsers (#171).

Fixed

List type with empty list default causes failure (PyLaia#48).
Pure dataclass instance default being considered as a subclass type.
Discard init_args after class_path change causes error (#205).
fail_untyped=False not propagated to subclass --*.help actions.
Issues reported by CodeQL.
Incorrect value when Path is cast to str and rel_path was changed.
Argument links with target a subclass mixed with other types not working (#208).
Failures when using a sequence type and the default is a tuple.
Parent parser logger not being forwarded to subcommand and internal parsers.

Changed

Clearer error message for when an argument link targets a subclass and the target key does not have init_args (lightning#16032).
The signatures extras now installs the typeshed-client package.
validators package is no longer a dependency.
Path types are no longer a subclass of str.
Parsing steps logging now at debug level.
Discarding init_args warning changed to log at debug level.
Removed replacing list instead of append warning.

v4.18.0 (2022-11-29)

Added

AST resolving for defaults with a class instance or a lambda that returns a class instance.

Fixed

bool values should not be accepted by int or float types.
parse_string raises AttributeError when given a simple string.
Added missing return_parser deprecation warning when CLI has subcommands.
Parsing fails for registered types that can't be cast to boolean (#196).
List append not working for default_config_files set in a subcommand subparser (lightning#15256).
Specifying only the class name through command line not working for Callable with class return type.
init_args not discarded for nested subclasses provided through command line (lightning#15796).
Unable to set/get values in Namespace when key is the same as a method name.

Changed

CLI no longer adds --config and --print_config if no arguments added to subcommand.
CLI now uses the component's docstring short description for subparser descriptions.
Slightly nicer type hint unexpected value error messages, in particular less redundancy for Union types.

v4.17.0 (2022-11-11)

Added

AST resolver now ignores if/elif/else code when condition is a global constant (#187).
AST resolver support for conditional **kwargs use in multiple calls (#187 comment).

Fixed

str type fails to parse value when pyyaml raises ConstructorError (#189).
Namespace clone should not deepcopy leaf values (#187).
_ActionHelpClassPath actions fail to instantiate when base class uses new union type syntax.

Changed

Improved help usage and description for --print_config.
Registering pathlib.Path types so that they are not shown as subclass types.

v4.16.0 (2022-10-28)

Added

Type Any now parses and instantiates classes when given dict that follows subclass specification (lightning#15115).
Signature methods now accept skipping a number of positionals.
Callable type hint with return type a class can now be given a subclass which produces a callable that returns an instance of the class.
Support for Python 3.11.

Fixed

Fail to import on Python 3.7 when typing_extensions not installed (#178).
Crashing when using set typehint with specified dtype (#183).

Changed

Using set_defaults on a config argument raises error and suggests to use default_config_files (lightning#15174).
Trying to add a second config argument to a single parser raises an exception (#169).

v4.15.2 (2022-10-20)

Fixed

Regression introduced in 6e7ae6d that produced cryptic error message when an invalid argument given (#172).
default_env not forwarded to subcommand parsers, causing environment variable names to not be shown in subcommand help (lightning#12790).
Cannot override Callable init_args without passing the class_path (#174).
Positional subclass type incorrectly adds subclass help as positional.
Order of types in Union not being considered.
str type fails to parse values of the form ^\w+: *.
parse_object does not consider given namespace for previous class_path values.

v4.15.1 (2022-10-07)

Fixed

compute_fn of an argument link applied on parse not given subclass default init_args when loading from config.
Subclass --*.help option not available when type is a Union mixed with not subclass types.
Override of dict_kwargs items from command line not working.
Multiple subclass init_args given through command line not being considered (lightning#15007).
Union types required all subtypes to be supported when expected to be at least one subtype supported (#168).

v4.15.0 (2022-09-27)

Added

set_defaults now supports subclass by name and normalization of import path.

Fixed

Loop variable capture bug pointed out by lgtm.com.
Issue with discard init_args when class_path not a subclass.
No error shown when arguments given to class group that does not accept arguments (#161 comment).
Incorrect replacement of **kwargs when *args present in parameter resolver.
Override of class_path not discarding init_args when loading from config file.
Invalid values given to the compute_fn of a argument link applied on parse without showing an understandable error message.

Changed

Now UUID and timedelta types are registered on first use to avoid possibly unused imports.
json/yaml dump sort now defaults to false for all python implementations.
add_class_arguments will not add config load option if no added arguments.

v4.14.1 (2022-09-26)

Fixed

Making import_docstring_parse a deprecated function only for pytorch-lightning backward compatibility.

v4.14.0 (2022-09-14)

Added

Support for os.PathLike as typehint (#159).
Also show known subclasses in help for Type[<type>].
Support for attribute docstrings (#150).
Way to configure parsing docstrings with a single style.

Fixed

Subclass nested argument incorrectly loaded as subclass config (#159).
Append to list not working for default_config_files in subcommands (#157).

v4.13.3 (2022-09-06)

Fixed

Failure to parse when subcommand has no options (#158).
Optional packages being imported even though not used.
Append to list not working for default_config_files (#157).

v4.13.2 (2022-08-31)

Fixed

Failure to print help when object used as type hint.
Failure to parse init args when type hint is union of str and class.
Handle change of non-existent file exception type in latest fsspec version.

v4.13.1 (2022-08-05)

Fixed

Regression that caused parse to fail when providing init_args from command line and the subclass default set as a dict.

v4.13.0 (2022-08-03)

Added

Support setting through command line individual dict items without replacing (#133 comment).
Support super() with non-immediate method resolution order parameter (#153).

Fixed

Mypy fails to find jsonargparse type hints (#151).
For multiple dict_kwargs command line arguments only the last one was kept.
Positional list with subtype causing crash (#154).

v4.12.0 (2022-07-22)

Added

Instantiation links now support multiple sources.
AST resolver now supports cls() class instantiation in classmethod (#146).
AST resolver now supports pop and get from **kwargs.

Fixed

file:/// scheme not working in windows (#144).
Instantiation links with source an entire subclass incorrectly showed --*.help.
Ensure AST-based parameter resolver handles value-less type annotations without error (#148).
Discarding init_args on class_path change not working for Union with mixed non-subclass types.
In some cases debug logs not shown even though JSONARGPARSE_DEBUG set.

Changed

Instantiation links with source an entire class no longer requires to have a compute function.
Instantiation links no longer restricted to first nesting level.
AST parameter resolver now only logs debug messages instead of failing (#146).
Documented AST resolver support for **kwargs use in property.

v4.11.0 (2022-07-12)

Added

env_prefix property now also accepts boolean. If set to False, no prefix is used for environment variable names (#145).
link_arguments support target being an entire subclass object (lightning#13539).

Fixed

Method resolution order not working correctly in parameter resolvers (#143).

Deprecated

env_prefix property will no longer accept None in v5.0.0.

v4.10.2 (2022-07-01)

Fixed

AST resolver fails for self._kwargs assign when a type hint is added.

v4.10.1 (2022-06-29)

Fixed

"Component not supported" crash instead of no parameters (#141).
Default from default_config_files not shown in help when argument has no default.
Only init_args in later config overwrites instead of updates (#142).

v4.10.0 (2022-06-21)

Added

Signature parameters resolved by inspecting the source code with ASTs (lightning#11653).
Support init args for unresolved parameters in subclasses (#114).
Allow providing a config with init_args but no class_path (#113).

Fixed

dump with skip_default=True not working for subclasses without init_args and when a default value requires serializing.
JSONARGPARSE_DEFAULT_ENV should have precedence over given value.
Giving an invalid class path and then init args would print a misleading error message about the init arg instead of the class.
In some cases print_config could output invalid values. Now a lenient check is done while dumping.
Resolved some issues related to the logger property and reconplogger.
Single dash '-' incorrectly parsed as [None].

Changed

dataclasses no longer an optional, now an install require on python 3.6.
Parameters of type POSITIONAL_OR_KEYWORD now considered KEYWORD (#98).
Some refactoring mostly related but not limited to the new AST support.
JSONARGPARSE_DEBUG now also sets the reconplogger level to DEBUG.
Renamed the test files to follow the more standard test_*.py pattern.
Now bool(Namespace()) evaluates to False.
When a class_path is overridden, now only the config values that the new subclass doesn't accept are discarded.

Deprecated

logger property will no longer accept None in v5.0.0.

v4.9.0 (2022-06-01)

Fixed

ActionsContainer not calling LoggerProperty.__init__.
For type Union[type, List[type] when previous value is None then --arg+=elem should result in a list with single element.

Changed

Literal options now shown in metavar like choices (#106).
tuple metavar now shown as [ITEM,...].
Required arguments with None default now shown without brackets in usage.
Improved description of --print_config in help.

v4.8.0 (2022-05-26)

Added

Support append to lists both from command line and config file (#85).
New register_unresolvable_import_paths function to allow getting the import paths of objects that don't have a proper __module__ attribute (lightning#13092).
New unit test for merge of config file init_args when class_path does not change (#89).

Changed

Replaced custom pre-commit script with a .pre-commit-config.yaml file.
All warnings are now caught in unit tests.
Moved return_parser tests to deprecated tests module.

v4.7.3 (2022-05-10)

Fixed

sub_add_kwargs not propagated for parameters of final classes.
New union syntax not working (#136).

v4.7.2 (2022-04-29)

Fixed

Make import_docstring_parse backward compatible to support released versions of LightningCLI (lightning#12918).

v4.7.1 (2022-04-26)

Fixed

Properly catch exceptions when parsing docstrings (lightning#12883).

v4.7.0 (2022-04-20)

Fixed

Failing to parse strings that look like timestamps (#135).
Correctly consider nested mapping type without args as supported.
New registered types incorrectly considered as class type.

Changed

Final classes now added as group of actions instead of one typehint action.
@final decorator now an import from typing_extensions if available.
Exporting ActionsContainer to show respective methods in documentation.
Raise ValueError when logger property given dict with unexpected key.

v4.6.0 (2022-04-11)

Added

Dump option to exclude entries whose value is the same as the default (#91).
Support specifying class_path only by name for known subclasses (#84).
add_argument with subclass type now also adds --*.help option.
Support shorter subclass command line arguments by not requiring to have .init_args..
Support for Literal backport from typing_extensions on python 3.7.
Support nested subclass --*.help CLASS options.

Changed

class_path's on parse are now normalized to shortest form.

v4.5.0 (2022-03-29)

Added

capture_parser function to get the parser object from a cli function.
dump_header property to set header for yaml/jsonnet dumpers (#79).
Callable type now supports callable classes (#110).

Fixed

Bug in check for class_path, init_args dicts.
Module mocks in cli_tests.py.

Changed

Moved argcomplete code from core to optionals module.
Callable no longer a simple registered type.
Import paths are now serialized as its shortest form.
Callable default now shown in help as full import path.
Moved typehint code from core to typehint module.
Ignore argument links when source/target subclass does not have parameter (#129).
Swapped order of argument links in help to source --> target.

Deprecated

CLI's return_parser parameter will be removed in v5.0.0.

v4.4.0 (2022-03-18)

Added

Environment variables to enable features without code change:
- JSONARGPARSE_DEFAULT_ENV to enable environment variable parsing.
- JSONARGPARSE_DEBUG to print of stack trace on parse failure.

Fixed

No error message for unrecognized arguments (lightning#12303).

Changed

Use yaml.CSafeLoader for yaml loading if available.

v4.3.1 (2022-03-01)

Fixed

Incorrect use of yaml_load with jsonnet parser mode (#125).
Load of subconfigs not correctly changing working directory (#125).
Regression introduced in commit 97e4567 fixed and updated unit test to prevent it (#128).
--print_config fails for subcommands when default_env=True (#126).

v4.3.0 (2022-02-22)

Added

Subcommands now also consider parent parser's default_config_files (lightning#11622).
Automatically added group config load options are now shown in the help #121.

Fixed

Dumper for jsonnet should be json instead of yaml (#123).
jsonnet import path not working correctly (#122).

Changed

ArgumentParser objects are now pickleable (lightning#12011).

v4.2.0 (2022-02-09)

Added

object_path_serializer and import_object support class methods #99.
parser_mode is now a property that when set, propagates to subparsers.
add_method_arguments also add parameters from same method of parent classes when *args or **kwargs present.

Fixed

Optional Enum types incorrectly adding a --*.help argument.
Specific errors for invalid value for --*.help class_path.

v4.1.4 (2022-01-26)

Fixed

Subcommand parsers not using the parent's parser_mode.
Namespace __setitem__ failing when key corresponds to a nested dict.

v4.1.3 (2022-01-24)

Fixed

String within curly braces parsed as dict due to yaml spec implicit values.

v4.1.2 (2022-01-20)

Fixed

Namespace TypeError with non-str inputs (#116).
print_config failing on subclass with required arguments (#115).

v4.1.1 (2022-01-13)

Fixed

Bad config merging in handle_subcommands (lightning#10859).
Unit tests failing with argcomplete>=2.0.0.

v4.1.0 (2021-12-06)

Added

set_loader function to allow replacing default yaml loader or adding a new parser mode.
set_dumper function to allow changing default dump formats or adding new named dump formats.
parser_mode='omegaconf' option to use OmegaConf as a loader, adding variable interpolation support.

Fixed

class_from_function missing dereference of string return type (#105).

v4.0.4 (2021-11-29)

Fixed

Linking of attributes applied on instantiation ignoring compute_fn.
Show full class paths in --*.help description to avoid misinterpretation.
--*.help action failing when fail_untyped and/or skip is required. (#101).
Raise exception if lazy_instance called with invalid lazy_kwargs.
Only add subclass defaults on defaults merging (#103).
Strict type and required only on final config check (#31).
instantiate_classes failing for type hints with nargs='+'.
Useful error message when init_args value invalid.
Specific error message when subclass dict has unexpected keys.
Removed unnecessary recursive calls causing slow parsing.

v4.0.3 (2021-11-23)

Fixed

Command line parsing of init_args failing with subclasses without a default.
get_default failing when destination key does not exist in default config file.
Fixed issue with empty help string caused by a change in argparse python 3.9.

v4.0.2 (2021-11-22)

Fixed

Specifying init_args from the command line resulting in empty namespace when no prior class_path given.
Fixed command line parsing of class_path and init_args options within subcommand.
lazy_instance of final class leading to incorrect default that includes class_path and init_args.
add_subclass_arguments not accepting a default keyword parameter.
Make it possible to disable deprecation warnings.

v4.0.0 (2021-11-16)

Added

New Namespace class that natively supports nesting and avoids flat/dict conversions.
python 3.10 is now supported and included in circleci tests.
Readme changed to use doctest and tests are run in github workflow.
More type hints throughout the code base.
New unit tests to increase coverage.
Include dataclasses extras require for tox testing.
Automatic namespace to dict for link based on target or compute_fn type.

Fixed

Fixed issues related to conflict namespace base.
Fixed the parsing of Dict[int, str] type (#87).
Fixed inner relative config with for commented tests for parse_env and CLI.
init_args from default_config_files not discarded when class_path is overridden.
Problems with class instantiation for parameters of final classes.
dump/save not removing linked target keys.
lazy_instance not working with torch.nn.Module (#96).

Changed

General refactoring and cleanup related to new Namespace class.
Parsed values from ActionJsonSchema/ActionJsonnet are now dict instead of Namespace.
Removed support for python 3.5 and related code cleanup.
contextvars package is now an install require for python 3.6.
Deprecations are now shown as JsonargparseDeprecationWarning.

Deprecated

ArgumentParser's parse_as_dict option will be removed in v5.0.0.
ArgumentParser's instantiate_subclasses method will be removed in v5.0.0.

Removed

python 3.5 is no longer supported.

v3.19.4 (2021-10-04)

Fixed

self.logger undefined on SignatureArguments (#92).
Fix linking for deep targets (#75).
Fix import_object failing with "not enough values to unpack" (#94).
Yaml representer error when dumping unregistered default path type.

v3.19.3 (2021-09-16)

Fixed

add_subclass_arguments with required=False failing on instantiation (#83).

v3.19.2 (2021-09-09)

Fixed

add_subclass_arguments with required=False failing when not given (#83).

v3.19.1 (2021-09-03)

Fixed

Repeated instantiation of dataclasses (lightning#9207).

v3.19.0 (2021-08-27)

Added

save now supports saving to an fsspec path (#86).

Fixed

Multifile save not working correctly for subclasses (#63).
link_arguments not working for subcommands (#82).

Changed

Multiple subcommand settings without explicit subcommand is now a warning instead of exception.

v3.18.0 (2021-08-18)

Added

Support for parsing Mapping and MutableMapping types.
Support for parsing frozenset, MutableSequence and MutableSet types.

Fixed

Don't discard init_args with non-changing --*.class_path argument.
Don't ignore KeyError in call to instantiate_classes (#81).
Optional subcommands fail with a KeyError (#68).
Conflicting namespace for subclass key in subcommand.
instantiate_classes not working for subcommand keys (#70).
Proper file not found message from _ActionConfigLoad (#64).
parse_path not parsing inner config files.

Changed

Docstrings no longer supported for python 3.5.
Show warning when --*.class_path discards previous init_args.
Trigger error when parse_args called with non-string value.
ActionParser accepts both title and help, title having preference.
Multiple subcommand settings allowed if explicit subcommand given.

v3.17.0 (2021-07-19)

Added

datetime.timedelta now supported as a type.
New function class_from_function to add signature of functions that return an instantiated class.

Fixed

--*.init_args.* causing crash when overriding value from config file.

v3.16.1 (2021-07-13)

Fixed

Signature functions not working for classes implemented with __new__.
instantiate_classes failing when keys not present in config object.

v3.16.0 (2021-07-05)

Added

lazy_instance function for serializable class type defaults.
Support for parsing multiple matched default config files (#58).

Fixed

--*.class_path and --*.init_args.* arguments not being parsed.
--help broken when default_config_files fail to parse (#60).
Pattern in default_config_files not using sort.

v3.15.0 (2021-06-22)

Added

Decorator for final classes and an is_final_class function to test it.
Support for final classes as type hint.
add_subclass_arguments now supports multiple classes given as tuple.
add_subclass_arguments now supports the instantiate parameter.

Fixed

Parsing of relative paths inside inner configs for type hint actions.

v3.14.0 (2021-06-08)

Added

Method instantiate_classes that instantiates subclasses and class groups.
Support for link_arguments that are applied on instantiation.
Method add_subclass_arguments now supports skipping of arguments.
Added support for Type in type hints (#59).

Fixed

Custom string template to avoid problems with percent symbols in docstrings.

v3.13.1 (2021-06-03)

Fixed

Type hint Any not correctly serializing Enum and registered type values.

v3.13.0 (2021-06-02)

Added

Inner config file support for subclass type hints in signatures and CLI (#57).
Forward fail_untyped setting to nested subclass type hints.

Fixed

With fail_untyped=True use type from default value instead of Any.
Registered types and typing types incorrectly considered subclass types.

Changed

Better structure of type hint error messages to ease understanding.

v3.12.1 (2021-05-19)

Fixed

--print_config can now be given before other arguments without value.
Fixed conversion of flat namespace to dict when there is a nested empty namespace.
Fixed issue with get_defaults with default config file and parse_as_dict=False.
Fixed bug in save which failed when there was an int key.

Changed

--print_config now only receives a value with = syntax.
add_{class,method,function,dataclass}_arguments now return a list of added arguments.

v3.12.0 (2021-05-13)

Added

Path support for fsspec file systems using the 's' mode flag.
set_config_read_mode function that can enable fsspec for config reading.
Option for print_config and dump with help as yaml comments.

Changed

print_config only added to parsers when ActionConfigFile is added.

Deprecated

set_url_support functionality now should be done with set_config_read_mode.

v3.11.2 (2021-05-03)

Fixed

Link argument arrow <= can be confused as less or equal, changed to <--.

v3.11.1 (2021-04-30)

Fixed

add_dataclass_arguments not making parameters without default as required (#54).
Removed from signature add methods required option included by mistake.

v3.11.0 (2021-04-27)

Added

CLI now has --config options at subcommand and subsubcommand levels.
CLI now adds subcommands with help string taken from docstrings.
print_config at subcommand level for global config with implicit subcommands.
New Path_drw predefined type.
Type hint arguments now support nargs='?'.
Signature methods can now skip arguments within init_args of subclasses.

Changed

Removed skip_check from ActionPathList which was never implemented.

Deprecated

ActionPath should no longer be used, instead paths are given as type.

Fixed

Actions not being applied for subsubcommand values.
handle_subcommands not correctly inferring subsubcommand.

v3.10.1 (2021-04-24)

Changed

fail_untyped now adds untyped parameters as type Any and if no default then default set to None.

Fixed

--*.help option being added for non-subclass types.
Iterable and Sequence types not working for python>=3.7 (#53).

v3.10.0 (2021-04-19)

Added

set_defaults method now works for arguments within subcommands.
CLI set_defaults option to allow overriding of defaults.
CLI return_parser option to ease inclusion in documentation.
save_path_content attribute to save paths content on config save.
New link_arguments method to derive an argument value from others.
print_config now includes subclass init_args if class_path given.
Subclass type hints now also have a --*.help option.

Changed

Signature parameters whose name starts with "_" are skipped.
The repr of Path now has the form Path_{mode}(.

Fixed

CLI now does instantiate_subclasses before running.

v3.9.0 (2021-04-09)

Added

New method add_dataclass_arguments.
Dataclasses are now supported as a type.
New predefined type Path_dc.
Experimental Callable type support.
Signature methods with nested key can be made required.
Support for Literal types.
New option in signatures methods to not fail for untyped required.

Changed

Generation of yaml now uses internally pyyaml's safe_dump.
New cleaner implementation for type hints support.
Moved deprecated code to a module specific for this.
Path types repr now has format Path(rel[, cwd=dir]).
instantiate_subclasses now always returns a dict.

Deprecated

ActionEnum should no longer be used, instead enums are given as type.

Fixed

Deserialization of types not being done for nested config files.

v3.8.1 (2021-03-22)

Fixed

Help fails saying required args missing if default config file exists (#48).
ActionYesNo arguments failing when parsing from environment variable (#49).

v3.8.0 (2021-03-22)

Added

Path class now supports home prefix '~' (#45).
yaml/json dump kwargs can now be changed via attributes dump_yaml_kwargs and dump_json_kwargs.

Changed

Now by default dump/save/print_config preserve the add arguments and argument groups order (only CPython>=3.6) (#46).
ActionParser group title now defaults to None if not given (#47).
Add argument with type Enum or type hint giving an action now raises error (#45).
Parser help now also considers default_config_files and shows which config file was loaded (#47).
get_default method now also considers default_config_files.
get_defaults now raises ParserError if default config file not valid.

Fixed

default_config_files property not removing help group when setting None.

v3.7.0 (2021-03-17)

Changed

ActionParser now moves all actions to the parent parser.
The help of ActionParser arguments is now shown in the main help (#41).

Fixed

Use of required in ActionParser parsers not working (#43).
Nested options with names including dashes not working (#42).
DefaultHelpFormatter not properly using env_prefix to show var names.

v3.6.0 (2021-03-08)

Added

Function to register additional types for use in parsers.
Type hint support for complex and UUID classes.

Changed

PositiveInt and NonNegativeInt now gives error instead of silently truncating when given float.
Types created with restricted_number_type and restricted_string_type now share a common TypeCore base class.

Fixed

ActionOperators not give error if type already registered.
List[Tuple] types not working correctly.
Some nested dicts kept as Namespace by dump.

v3.5.1 (2021-02-26)

Fixed

Parsing of relative paths in default_config_files not working.
Description of tuple type in the readme.

v3.5.0 (2021-02-12)

Added

Tuples with ellipsis are now supported (#40).

Fixed

Using dict as type incorrectly considered as class requiring class_path.
Nested tuples were not working correctly (#40).

v3.4.1 (2021-02-03)

Fixed

CLI crashed for class method when zero args given after subcommand.
Options before subcommand provided in config file gave subcommand not given.
Arguments in groups without help not showing required, type and default.
Required arguments help incorrectly showed null default value.
Various improvements and fixes to the readme.

v3.4.0 (2021-02-01)

Added

Save with multifile=True now creates original jsonnet file for ActionJsonnet.
default_config_files is now a property of parser objects.
Table in readme to ease understanding of extras requires for optional features (#38).

Changed

Save with multifile=True uses file extension to choose json or yaml format.

Fixed

Better exception message when using ActionJsonSchema and jsonschema not installed (#38).

v3.3.2 (2021-01-22)

Fixed

Changed actions so that keyword arguments are visible in API.
Fixed save method short description which was copy paste of dump.
Added missing docstring in instantiate_subclasses method.
Fixed crash when using --help and ActionConfigFile not given help string.
Standardized capitalization and punctuation of: help, config, version.

v3.3.1 (2021-01-08)

Fixed

instantiate_subclasses work properly when init_args not present.
Addressed a couple of issues pointed out by sonarcloud.

v3.3.0 (2021-01-08)

Added

New add_subclass_arguments method to add as type with a specific help option.

v3.2.1 (2020-12-30)

Added

Automatic Optional for arguments with default None (#30).
CLI now supports running methods from classes.
Signature arguments can now be loaded from independent config files (#32).
add_argument now supports enable_path for type based on jsonschema.
print_config can now be given as value skip_null to exclude null entries.

Changed

Improved description of parser used as standalone and for ActionParser (#34).
Removed __cwd__ and top level __path__ that were not needed.

Fixed

ActionYesNo argument in help the type is now bool.
Correctly skip self in add_method_arguments for inherited methods.
Prevent failure of dump in cleanup_actions due to new _ActionConfigLoad.
Prevent failure in save_paths for dict with int keys.
Avoid duplicate config check failure message with subcommands.

v3.1.0 (2020-12-09)

Added

Support for multiple levels of subcommands (#29).
Default description of subcommands explaining use of --help.

v3.0.1 (2020-12-02)

Fixed

add_class_arguments incorrectly added arguments from __call__ instead of __init__ for callable classes.

v3.0.0 (2020-12-01)

Added

Functions to add arguments from classes, methods and functions.
CLI function that allows creating a line command line interface with a single line of code inspired by Fire.
Typing module that includes predefined types and type generator functions for paths and restricted numbers/strings.
Extended support to add_argument type to allow complex type hints.
Parsers now include --print_config option to dump defaults.
Support argcomplete for tab completion of arguments.

Changed

ArgumentParsers by default now use as error_handler the usage_and_exit_error_handler.
error_handler and formatter_class no longer accept as value a string.
Changed SimpleNamespace to Namespace to avoid unnecessary differences with argparse.

Deprecated

ActionOperators should no longer be used, the new alternative is restricted number types.

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