profig 0.5.1

A configuration library.

profig is a straightforward configuration library for Python.

Motivation

Why another configuration library? The simple answer is that none of the available options give me everything I want, with an API that I enjoy using. This library provides a lot of powerful functionality, but never at the cost of simplicity.

Features

• Automatic value conversion.

• Section nesting.

• Dict-like access.

• Single-file module with no dependencies.

• Extensible input/output formats.

• Built-in support for INI files and the Windows registry.

• Preserves ordering and comments of INI files.

• Full Unicode support.

• Supports Python 2.7+ and 3.2+.

Installation

profig installs using easy_install or pip:

$ pip install profig

Example

Basic usage is cake. Let’s assume our config file looks like this:

[server]
host = 192.168.1.1
port = 9090

First, we specify the defaults and types to expect:

>>> cfg = profig.Config('server.cfg')
>>> cfg.init('server.host', 'localhost')
>>> cfg.init('server.port', 8080)

Then, we sync our current state with the state of the config file:

>>> cfg.sync()

As expected, we can access the updated values without undue effort, either directly:

>>> cfg['server.host']
'192.168.1.1'

Or by section. Notice that the type of the port option is preserved:

>>> server_cfg = cfg.section('server')
>>> server_cfg['port']
9090

Resources

• Documentation

• PyPI

• Repository