ihih 0.2.1

Configuration parsers with lazy parameters evaluation

ihih is an attempt to provide simple configuration parsers (for Python) with a dictionary-like interface.

It try to be flexible and let you alter the syntax by sub-classing it.

More informations can be found in the docs directory or online:

• https://romain-dartigues.gitlab.io/python-ihih/

• http://python-ihih.readthedocs.org/

Features

“flat” configuration file format

Flat by opposition to, “nested” (like JSON, nginx, …) and “section” (INI files, …).

Simple key / value system

Simple, obvious, supporting the features you are used to (ignore blank lines and spaces, support comments, automatic unquoting, …).

Lazy value interpolation

Example:

my_banner   = $myhostname MY-PROGRAM
my_hostname = server.example.net

Dictionary-like interface

Example:

>>> print conf['my_banner']
server.example.net MY-PROGRAM

Configuration precedence

In the following example, user configuration file will take precedence over system-wide configuration file:

conf = IHIH(
   (
      '/etc/example.conf',
      os.path.join(os.path.expanduser('~'), '.example.conf')
   )
)

Default on the initialization

Example:

conf = IHIH(
   '/etc/example.conf',
   {'lang': 'en', 'TZ': 'UTC'}
)