A configuration library.
Project description
profig is a configuration library for Python.
Motivation
Why another configuration library? The simple answer is that none of the available options gave me everything I wanted, with an API that I enjoyed using. This library is as close to my ideal as I have been able to come. It tries to provide some (but not too much) powerful functionality, without sacrificing simplicity.
Features
Automatic value conversion.
Simple section nesting.
Dict-like access.
Easily extensible input/output formats.
Installation
profig installs easily using easy_install or pip:
$ pip install profig
Example
Basic usage is cake. Assuming our config file looks like this (INI formatting is also supported):
server.host: 192.168.1.1 server.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()
Then we can access the values directly without any extra effort, either directly:
>>> cfg['server.host'] '192.168.1.1'
Or by section:
>>> server_cfg = cfg.section('server') >>> server_cfg['port'] 9090
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