From b804b8e85195a929285471b7368f712062cebd15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Will McGugan <willmcgugan@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2024 12:48:47 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] simplify and optimize

---
 src/textual/css/query.py | 18 +++---------------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/textual/css/query.py b/src/textual/css/query.py
index 23233f8d2c..8694ee2d3d 100644
--- a/src/textual/css/query.py
+++ b/src/textual/css/query.py
@@ -279,21 +279,9 @@ def only_one(
         the_one: ExpectType | QueryType = (
             self.first(expect_type) if expect_type is not None else self.first()
         )
-        try:
-            # Now see if we can access a subsequent item in the nodes. There
-            # should *not* be anything there, so we *should* get an
-            # IndexError. We *could* have just checked the length of the
-            # query, but the idea here is to do the check as cheaply as
-            # possible. "There can be only one!" -- Kurgan et al.
-            _ = self.nodes[1]
-            raise TooManyMatches(
-                "Call to only_one resulted in more than one matched node"
-            )
-        except IndexError:
-            # The IndexError was got, that's a good thing in this case. So
-            # we return what we found.
-            pass
-        return the_one
+        if len(self.nodes) == 1:
+            return the_one
+        raise TooManyMatches("Call to only_one resulted in more than one matched node")
 
     if TYPE_CHECKING:
 

From 144f4160a5521e59bcdfffcf3c2b8558963a6323 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Will McGugan <willmcgugan@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2024 14:42:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] wip

---
 src/textual/app.py    |  6 ++++++
 src/textual/config.py | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/textual/widget.py |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 src/textual/config.py

diff --git a/src/textual/app.py b/src/textual/app.py
index 9f38dcb3af..28507e685c 100644
--- a/src/textual/app.py
+++ b/src/textual/app.py
@@ -278,6 +278,12 @@ def fileno(self) -> int:
 class App(Generic[ReturnType], DOMNode):
     """The base class for Textual Applications."""
 
+    CONFIG_PATH: str | None = None
+    """Path to app config, or `None` for no app config."""
+
+    APP_ID: str | None = None
+    """A unique identifier used in the config system, or `None` to use the name of the App sub-class."""
+
     CSS: ClassVar[str] = ""
     """Inline CSS, useful for quick scripts. This is loaded after CSS_PATH,
     and therefore takes priority in the event of a specificity clash."""
diff --git a/src/textual/config.py b/src/textual/config.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4b1b007211
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/textual/config.py
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import tomllib
+from os import PathLike
+
+
+class Config:
+    def __init__(self, *paths: PathLike) -> None:
+        self.paths = paths
+        self._data: dict | None = None
+        self._attempted_read = False
+
+    def _read(self) -> dict:
+        configs: list[dict] = []
+        for path in self.paths:
+            try:
+                with open(path, "rb") as config_file:
+                    configs.append(tomllib.load(config_file))
+            except IOError:
+                pass
+        config = configs[0]
+        for overlay_config in configs[1:]:
+            if isinstance(overlay_config, dict):
+                for key, value in overlay_config.items():
+                    config[key] = value
+        return config
+
+    @property
+    def data(self) -> dict:
+        if not self._attempted_read:
+            self._attempted_read = True
+            self._data = self._read()
+        if self._data is None:
+            return {}
+        return self._data
+
+    def get(self, *keys: str, default: object = None) -> object:
+        data = self.data
+        for key in keys:
+            if key not in data:
+                return default
+            data = data[key]
+        return data
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    config = Config("config.toml")
+    from rich import print
+
+    print(config.data)
diff --git a/src/textual/widget.py b/src/textual/widget.py
index 8c4f1598d5..73bdcef143 100644
--- a/src/textual/widget.py
+++ b/src/textual/widget.py
@@ -834,7 +834,7 @@ def render_str(self, text_content: str | Text) -> Text:
             A text object.
         """
         text = (
-            Text.from_markup(text_content)
+            Text.from_markup(text_content, end="")
             if isinstance(text_content, str)
             else text_content
         )