konf 1.0

Konf

Designed to simplify a process of variables usage in configuration files. Importing variables to Python must be easy!

Installation:

pip install konf

Features:

• Easy to use

• JSON and YAML support out of the box

• Require typing or validation of all input data for human factor prevention

• Python 2.7, 3+ compatible

• Unit-tested

• Custom format of configuration files can be used

For Python data structures validation used excellent lib kolypto/py-good

For YAML parsing used great lib of Kirill Simonov PyYAML

How to use this library

It’s pretty simple. Just look at the code.

from konf import Konf

k_ = Konf('fruits.yml')
APPLE = k_('APPLE', basestring)
ORANGE = k_('ORANGE', basestring)
BASKET_OF_MANDARINS = k_('BASKET', [basestring])
NAMED_BANANAS = k_('BANANAS', {'yellow': basestring, 'banana2': basestring})

k2_ = Konf('grades.json')
DAVID_GRADE = k2_('DAVID', int)
MARIA_GRADE = k2_('MARIA', int)

You can find more details and advanced examples about natural validation on documentation of the “good” validation library

List of supporting Exceptions after abnormal situations

ValidationError:

Raises when data from config file doesn’t match to the type_or_validator arg

IncompleteConfig:

Raises after trying to get variable that not contained in config file

ReadError:

Raises when config file can’t be read

ParseError:

Raises if third-party parser can’t parse configuration file

ReassignmentError:

Raises if variable is loading from Konf not for the first time

FileExtensionError:

Raises if extension of the config is not .yml or .json, and parse_callback arg is not specified

That’s it!

Pull-requests are welcome.