TOMFIG - Toml Config

The simplest TOML config manager for python!

This module borrows a little from config. The only argument needed during initialization is the config_path.

from tomfig import Config

# defaults to [cwd]/config
config = Config(config_path='/dir/with/config_files')

The module then loads configuration files and merges down the configs in the following order.

1. default.toml
2. [environment_config].toml where environment is whatever you pass to your script via the ENV environment variable. Default is development.toml

Accessing Config Values

There are two ways of accessing config values.

Imagine we have the following config file:

[APP]
name="My App"

[TOOLS.language-support]
python=">3.8"

[SERVER.API]
domain="localhost:3000/default"

1. Direct/Data Access

You can access config values directly using dot notation via the data property as follows.

config.data.APP.name 
# "My App"

However, this method is discouraged on production. This is because, if a key is missing, it returns None instead of throwing an error.

That behaviour is however intentional as it allows us an eay way to check is a config value exists. For example:

# Check if our app has a name
if not config.data.APP.name:
    # Use AI to generate and set APP name 

2. Safe/Get Access

This is the preferred method to access config values. This method immediately throws if a certain value is missing.

config.get("SERVER.API.domain")
# "localhost:3000/development"

Have a look at the tests for examples.

Thoughts

I have not implemented a .set() method and don't plan to. It is my considered view that configs should be static and only changed in the config files to ensure code functions in a predictable, easy to debug manner.