NoxOpt

Nox sessions with options!

Installation

It's just pip install noxopt!

Basic Usage

Define a session with typed parameters:

from noxopt import NoxOpt, Session

nox = NoxOpt()

@nox.session
def add_numbers(session: Session, x: int, y: int) -> None:
    session.log(x + y)

Now you can pass this session the declared option via the command line:

nox -s my-session -- --x 10 -- y 3

And you'll see the following output

nox > Running session my-session
nox > Creating virtual environment (virtualenv) using python in .nox/my-session
nox > 13
nox > Session my-session was successful.

Note that all options declared with the sessions of a NoxOpt group must be consistent. That is, if one session defined x: int, another session in the same group cannot define x: bool instead.

Customizing Options

This time you're going to use some Annotated metadata to customize your option:

from typing import Annotated, TypeAlias
from noxopt import NoxOpt, Option, Session

nox = NoxOpt()

@nox.session
def sum_numbers(
    session: Session,
    nums: Annotated[list[int], Option(nargs="*", type=int)],
) -> None:
    session.log(sum(nums))

This time when you run it you can pass several of numbers:

nox -s sum-numbers -- --nums 10 3 26 4

And you'll see the following output

nox > Running session my-session
nox > Creating virtual environment (virtualenv) using python in .nox/my-session
nox > 43
nox > Session my-session was successful.

Note that the annotation for nums should be understood in the following way:

# declare a type with metadata
Annotated[
    # your normal type annotation
    list[int],
    # configure the option associated with the type annotation above
    Option(nargs="*", type=int)
]

You'll find that Option has nearly the same parameters as argparse.add_argument.

If you need to use a given option more than once you can do so by defining it as a variable:

from functools import reduce
from typing import Annotated, TypeAlias
from noxopt import NoxOpt, Option, Session

nox = NoxOpt()

Integers = Annotated[list[int], Option(nargs="*", type=int)]

@nox.session
def sum_numbers(session: Session, nums: Integers) -> None:
    session.log(sum(nums))

@nox.session
def multiply_numbers(session: Session, nums: Integers) -> None:
    session.log(reduce(lambda x, y: x * y, nums, 0))

Automatic Tags

An additional nicety of NoxOpt is that is can automatically create tags based on the names of your sessions using the auto_tag_depth parameter. The idea behind this parameter is that if you have a set of sessions with a common naming scheme - for example:

• check-python-tests
• check-python-format
• check-javascript-tests
• check-javascript-format

One might find it useful to be able to run say, all the sessions begining with check-python. Thankfully if you set NoxOpt(auto_tag_depth=2), NoxOpt will split every session name on - characters and generate tags based on the first two words in each. In this case, the set of tags would be:

• check
• check-python
• check-javascript

If you wish to disable this behavior in a given session you can set NoxOpt.session(tags=None) when defining it.

Using Multiple Nox Option Groups

It may be useful to divide sessions into different NoxOpt groups. This could be because there a sessions that need to re-use the same parameter name, but with different option setting, or because you need more control over automatic tags. To do this, all you need to do is create two separate NoxOpt instances and add sessions to them.

The example below uses two NoxOpt instance to generate the following tags:

• format
• check
• check-python
• check-javascript

from noxopt import NoxOpt, Session

formatters = NoxOpt(auto_tag_depth=1)
checkers = NoxOpt(auto_tag_depth=2)

@formatters.session
def format_python(session: Session) -> None:
    ...

@formatters.session
def format_javascript(session: Session) -> None:
    ...

@checkers.session
def check_python_tests(session: Session) -> None:
    ...

@checkers.session
def check_python_format(session: Session) -> None:
    ...

@checkers.session
def check_javascript_tests(session: Session) -> None:
    ...

@checkers.session
def check_javascript_format(session: Session) -> None:
    ...