env-excavator 1.1.0

Tools for exconverting environment variables to native python objects

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env-excavator
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Tools for exconverting environment variables to native python objects

Quickstart
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Install env-excavator::

pip install env-excavator

Example use it in a project::

>>> import os
>>> import excavator
>>> os.environ['FROM_EMAIL'] = '[e-mail]'
>>> excavator.env_string('FROM_EMAIL')
... '[e-mail]'
>>> os.environ['DEBUG'] = 'True'
>>> DEBUG = excavator.env_bool('DEBUG')
... True
>>> os.environ['ALLOWED_HOSTS'] = '.example.com,.example.net'
>>> excavator.env_list('ALLOWED_HOSTS')
['.example.com', '.example.net']

API
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* ``excavator.env_string(name, required=False, default='')``::

Pulls an environment variable out of the environment returning it as a string.

**name** - the name of the environment variable be pulled

**required** - Whether the environment variable is required. If ``True`` and
the variable is not present, a ``KeyError`` is raised.

**default** - The value to return if the environment variable is not present.
(providing a default alongside setting ``required=True`` will raise a
``ValueError``)

* ``excavator.env_bool(name, truthy_values=('True', 'true'), required=False, default='')``::

Pulls an environment variable out of the environment returning it as a
boolean. The strings ``'True'`` and ``'true'`` are the default *truthy*
values.

**name** - the name of the environment variable be pulled

**truthy_values** - An iterable of values that should be considered truthy.

**required** - Whether the environment variable is required. If ``True`` and
the variable is not present, a ``KeyError`` is raised.

**default** - The value to return if the environment variable is not present.
(providing a default alongside setting ``required=True`` will raise a
``ValueError``)

* ``excavator.env_list(name, separator=',', required=False, default='')``::

Pulls an environment variable out of the environment, splitting it on a
separator, and returning it as a list. Extra whitespace on the list values
is stripped.

**name** - the name of the environment variable be pulled

**separator** - The separator that the string should be split on.

**required** - Whether the environment variable is required. If ``True`` and
the variable is not present, a ``KeyError`` is raised.

**default** - The value to return if the environment variable is not present.
(providing a default alongside setting ``required=True`` will raise a
``ValueError``)