Merge pull request #218 from neithere/release/v0.31.2

Release v0.31.2

CHANGELOG.rst

@@ -1,6 +1,14 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
+Version 0.31.2 (2024-01-24)
+---------------------------
+
+Bugs fixed:
+
+- broken support for `Optional[List]` (but not `Optional[list]`), a narrower
+  case of the problem fixed earlier (issue #216).
+
 Version 0.31.1 (2024-01-19)
 ---------------------------
 

pyproject.toml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "flit_core.buildapi"
 
 [project]
 name = "argh"
-version = "0.31.1"
+version = "0.31.2"
 description = "Plain Python functions as CLI commands without boilerplate"
 readme = "README.rst"
 requires-python = ">=3.8"
@@ -59,10 +59,10 @@ test = [
   "pytest-cov >= 4.1",
 ]
 docs = [
-  "sphinx >= 6.1",
-  "sphinx-pyproject == 0.1.0",
-  "sphinx_rtd_theme >= 1.2.0",
-  "readthedocs-sphinx-search == 0.2.0",
+  "sphinx >= 7.2",
+  "sphinx-pyproject == 0.3",
+  "sphinx_rtd_theme >= 2.0",
+  "readthedocs-sphinx-search == 0.3.2",
 ]
 linters = [
   "pre-commit >= 3.4.0",

src/argh/assembling.py

@@ -770,10 +770,10 @@ def typing_hint_to_arg_spec_params(
             if first_subtype in cls.BASIC_TYPES:
                 retval["type"] = first_subtype
 
-            if first_subtype == list:
+            if first_subtype in (list, List):
                 retval["nargs"] = ZERO_OR_MORE
 
-            if get_origin(first_subtype) == list:
+            if first_subtype != List and get_origin(first_subtype) == list:
                 retval["nargs"] = ZERO_OR_MORE
                 item_type = cls._extract_item_type_from_list_type(first_subtype)
                 if item_type:

tests/test_typing_hints.py

@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ def test_list():
     assert guess(list) == {"nargs": "*"}
     assert guess(List) == {"nargs": "*"}
     assert guess(Optional[list]) == {"nargs": "*", "required": False}
+    assert guess(Optional[List]) == {"nargs": "*", "required": False}
 
     assert guess(List[str]) == {"nargs": "*", "type": str}
     assert guess(List[int]) == {"nargs": "*", "type": int}