rcfile 0.1.1

Configuration file loader

Configuration file loader for Python projects

Based on: https://github.com/dominictarr/rc

Features

Read environment variables and config files and return them merged with predefined list of arguments.

Arguments:

appname - application name, used for config files and environemnt variable names. args - arguments from command line (optparse, docopt, etc). strip_dashes - strip dashes prefixing key names from args dict.

Returns:

dict containing the merged variables of environment variables, config files and args.

Environment variables are read if they start with appname in uppercase with underscore, for example:

TEST_VAR=1

Config files compatible with ConfigParser are read and the section name appname is read, example:

[appname] var=1

Files are read from: /etc/appname/config, /etc/appfilerc, ~/.config/appname/config, ~/.config/appname,

~/.appname/config, ~/.appnamerc, .appnamerc, file provided by config variable in args.

Example usage with docopt:

args = rcfile(__name__, docopt(__doc__, version=__version__))

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Requirements

• Python >= 2.6 or >= 3.3

License

MIT licensed. See the bundled LICENSE file for more details.