EMS-config

This project introduces a unified way of handling config files. The philosophy is having a text-based config file (ini, yml or toml) and then perform parsing and sanity-checking in code afterwards. Moreover, a default layout is encouraged.

You need to provide three paths

1. An app_data directory. This is where you should put all your data and where your final config file should go. This is set in an environmental variable APP_DATA_PATH, which defaults to app_data.
2. A path to your final config file. This defaults to $APP_DATA_PATH/config.ini if your template file is called config.example.ini (see below). That is, it strips .example from the filename of you template file.
3. A path to the template file. This defaults to config.example.ini.

Notice that 2 and 3 can both be set in the following parse-method or in environmental variables (CONFIG_PATH and CONFIG_TEMPLATE_PATH)

The assumed layout of you directory would then be something like

project
  - app_data/
    - config.ini
  - app.py
  - config.py
  - config.example.ini

Where config.py contains the following,

from ems_config import parse_config

config = parse_config()

URL = config["DEFAULT"]["URL"]

and the template config.ini.example contains an example of the configuration,

[DEFAULT]
URL = http://google.com

You can then use the configuration in other python files like this,

from config import URL
print(URL)  # do stuff with the URL

Notice, if the config.ini in app_data (or where ever you choose to place it), the template will be copied to that location.

Helper methods

This library provides a few helper methods found in ems.helpers

# Get the path of p relative to the APP_DATA_DIR
get_from_app_data(p)

## Help to parse from .ini style files
parse_dt_or_none(...)
parse_list_or_none(...)

Customization

If you don't want your template to be named after the above scheme, you can pass another template path into the parse_config() methods. Likewise, if you want you final config file to be located elsewhere, you can also provide another path

from ems_config import parse_config

# config_path will default to $APP_DATA_PATH/cfg.ini
config = parse_config(config_template='templates/cfg.example.ini')

config = parse_config(config_template='templates/cfg.ini', config_path='/etc/app.ini')