simple-argparse-config 0.1.0

Simple yaml config file for argparse (command line arguments parsing)

Features

simple-argparse-config is a simple argparse config yaml files manager.

simple-argparse-config allows your python script to configure their argparse parser with a yaml file.

The name of the configuration file for the script /path/to/my/script.py is /path/to/my/script-argconfig.yaml

It can also convert your argparse parser configured by code, to yaml file configuration files. This is typically a one time operation to convert your scripts to the argparse yaml config file. After this operation, you can manage your command line arguments in the config file.

Install

pip install simple-argparse-config

or

uv add simple-argparse-config

Usage

import simple_argparse_config as sac

parser = sac.arg_parser_from_config_for_script(__file__)

# Tests, export argparse parser config to the config yaml file
# sac.arg_parser_to_config_for_script(parser , __file__)
# parser_clone = sac.arg_parser_from_config_for_script(__file__)

args = parser.parse_args()

The utility was first used as a way to share arguments info between the script itself, and a GUI made with streamlit, allowing to launch the script with customized arguments through the streamlit web app.

Limitations

This utiliy was built with the help of Gemini 3 LLM. Several iterations, and manual corrections.

Compatible with these argument types :

{'Path': Path, 'int': int, 'float': float, 'str': str}