simpleconfigfinder 0.5.0

Minimalistic configuration finder with standard Python libraries.

Config Finder

Finds a configuration file (e.g. pyproject.toml) and returns some sub-configuration by only using python standard libraries.

Supported formats:

• TOML
• JSON
• INI
• YAML (see Documentation how to enable)

Use Case

When defining machine learning projects and handling the project configuration by e.g. a pyproject.toml (e.g. with Astral UV or Poetry) you can utilize the configuration files to define and store important variables.

Instead of defining global variables in your code or using dotenv, a configuration file such as the pyproject.toml can be used for those values.

Example

Instead of defining global variables, just define these parameters in the pyproject.toml

[tool.some_tool]
key1 = "some_value_1"
key2 = "some_value_2"

[tool.some_tool.default_config]
important_key = "some_value"

[tool.some_tool.special_config]
important_key = "another_value"

To get the key for your default_config just call

find_configuration("pyproject.toml", ["tool", "some_tool", "default_config", "important_key"])

"some_value"

and respectively for your special_config use

find_configuration("pyproject.toml", ["tool", "some_tool", "special_config", "important_key"])

"another_value"

Or you could get one full set of the configuration as dictionary via

find_configuration("pyproject.toml", ["tool", "some_tool", "special_config"])

{ "important_key" : "another_value" }

Link to full documentation