Bump cmd2 from 2.7.0 to 3.0.0

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Bumps cmd2 from 2.7.0 to 3.0.0.

Release notes

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3.0.0 (December 7, 2025)

Summary

cmd2 now has a dependency on rich for rich text and pretty formatting in the terminal. Previously, cmd2 had a large amount of custom code for this purpose that predated the existence of rich. This opens the door to even more beautiful cmd2 applications. To get the most out of the new capabilities, we encourage you to spend a little bit of time reading the rich documentation.

Details

• Breaking Changes

  • Refactored and modernized styling and utility modules:
    • Removed the legacy table_creator.py module in favor of rich tables (see the rich_tables.py example for more info)
    • Moved all string-related functions from utils.py to a new string_utils.py module
      • Removed redundant string from some of the names so quote_string is now just quote and quote_string_if_needed is now quote_if_needed
    • Consolidated all string styling functions from ansi.py into string_utils.py
    • Replaced all text style enums from ansi.py with modern rich styles
    • Renamed ansi.py to terminal_utils.py to better reflect its purpose
  • Dropped support for Python 3.9. cmd2 now requires Python 3.10 or later
  • Replaced Settable.get_value() and Settable.set_value() methods with a more Pythonic value property
  • Removed redundant setting of a parser's prog value in the with_argparser() decorator, as this is now handled centrally in Cmd._build_parser()
  • The auto_load_commands argument to cmd2.Cmd.__init__ now defaults to False
  • argparse_custom module breaking changes:
    • descriptive_header: str replaced with descriptive_headers: Sequence[str | rich.Column]
      • Applies to parameter name when adding an argument to a parser as well as set_descriptive_headers and get_descriptive_headers
    • CompletionItem.description: str changed to CompletionItem.descriptive_data: Sequence[str | rich.Column]
  • decorators module breaking changes:
    • _set_parser_prog renamed to set_parser_prog (without the leading underscore) and moved to argparse_custom module
  • Renamed history --output_file to --output-file to follow common command-line practices

• Enhancements

  • Enhanced all print methods (poutput(), perror(), ppaged(), etc.) to natively render rich objects, enabling beautiful and complex output
  • Simplified the process for setting a custom parser for cmd2's built-in commands. See the custom_parser.py example for an updated guide
  • Introduced Cmd.macro_arg_complete() for tab-completing macro arguments, with default path completion that can be easily customized
  • Added colors.py and styles.py to provide easy access to rich color names and manage cmd2-specific style definitions using StrEnum (see the colors.py example for a

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Changelog

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3.0.0 (December 7, 2025)

Summary

cmd2 now has a dependency on rich for rich text and pretty formatting in the terminal. Previously, cmd2 had a large amount of custom code for this purpose that predated the existence of rich. This opens the door to even more beautiful cmd2 applications. To get the most out of the new capabilities, we encourage you to spend a little bit of time reading the rich documentation.

Details

• Breaking Changes

  • Refactored and modernized styling and utility modules:
    • Removed the legacy table_creator.py module in favor of rich tables (see the rich_tables.py example for more info)
    • Moved all string-related functions from utils.py to a new string_utils.py module
      • Removed redundant string from some of the names so quote_string is now just quote and quote_string_if_needed is now quote_if_needed
    • Consolidated all string styling functions from ansi.py into string_utils.py
    • Replaced all text style enums from ansi.py with modern rich styles
    • Renamed ansi.py to terminal_utils.py to better reflect its purpose
  • Dropped support for Python 3.9. cmd2 now requires Python 3.10 or later
  • Replaced Settable.get_value() and Settable.set_value() methods with a more Pythonic value property
  • Removed redundant setting of a parser's prog value in the with_argparser() decorator, as this is now handled centrally in Cmd._build_parser()
  • The auto_load_commands argument to cmd2.Cmd.__init__ now defaults to False
  • argparse_custom module breaking changes:
    • descriptive_header: str replaced with descriptive_headers: Sequence[str | rich.Column]
      • Applies to parameter name when adding an argument to a parser as well as set_descriptive_headers and get_descriptive_headers
    • CompletionItem.description: str changed to CompletionItem.descriptive_data: Sequence[str | rich.Column]
  • decorators module breaking changes:
    • _set_parser_prog renamed to set_parser_prog (without the leading underscore) and moved to argparse_custom module
  • Renamed history --output_file to --output-file to follow common command-line practices

• Enhancements

  • Enhanced all print methods (poutput(), perror(), ppaged(), etc.) to natively render rich objects, enabling beautiful and complex output
  • Simplified the process for setting a custom parser for cmd2's built-in commands. See the custom_parser.py example for an updated guide
  • Introduced Cmd.macro_arg_complete() for tab-completing macro arguments, with default path completion that can be easily customized
  • Added colors.py and styles.py to provide easy access to rich color names and manage cmd2-specific style definitions using StrEnum (see the

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Commits

• 1c5ebe1 Fixed regex validation for version tag
• 259b8b4 Fix bold text in README
• 5035da6 Update CHANGELOG and README in preparation for 3.0.0 release
• 02ceeb5 Update ruff and a few other dependencies (#1537)
• 5c0135e mkdocstrings-python 2.0.0 was released and is stricter about warnings (#1536)
• 0ed8f89 Bump actions/create-github-app-token from 2.1.4 to 2.2.0 (#1535)
• 74dd076 Bump actions/checkout from 5 to 6 (#1534)
• 08291ef Update ruff version to 0.14.1
• 760d2b2 Bump github/codeql-action from 3 to 4 (#1531)
• 312fc8e Upgrade versions of ruff, uv, and Python used for CI/CD (#1529)
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Superseded by #28.