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A library for defining, parsing, and validating settings passed as environment variables

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Varsity helps you define your application’s settings, read them from environment variables, parse them into native Python types, and validate them.

Load a simple string

Assume the FOO environment variable as been set to ‘3’. After setting up the loader and calling its .load() method, we get back a dictionary with a key for each setting we’ve added to the loader.

>>> from varsity import Loader
>>> l = Loader()
>>> l.add('FOO')
>>> settings = l.load()
>>> settings.FOO
'3'

If you want to use a different name for the setting within Python, you can provide your own.

>>> l.add('FOO', 'foo')
>>> settings = l.load()
>>> settings.foo
'3'

The object returned from .load() also provides dictionary-style access to settings.

>>> settings['foo']
'3'

You can provide a ‘typ’ callable that will be used to convert the environment variable string into the type of your choice.

>>> l.add('FOO', 'foo', typ=int)
>>> settings = l.load()
>>> settings.foo
3

You can provide defaults that will be returned if the environment variable is not present.

>>> l.add('SOME_UNSET_VAR', default=0)
>>> settings = l.load()
>>> settings.SOME_UNSET_VAR
0

If you don’t provide a default, and the environment variable is not set, ValueError will be raised.

You can provide your own callable as the ‘typ’ argument. Assume the ‘TODAY’ environment variable is set to ‘2016-05-05’.

>>> from varsity import Loader
>>> from iso8601 import parse_date
>>> l = Loader()
>>> l.add('TODAY', 'today', typ=lambda x: parse_date(x).date())
>>> settings = l.load()
>>> settings.today
datetime.date(2016, 5, 5)

If you don’t provide a ‘typ’, but you do provide a default, then the environment variable will be cast to the same type as the default. (Here we get back an int 3 instead of the string ‘3’, because the default is an int.)

>>> l.add('FOO', 'foo', default=0)
>>> settings = l.load()
>>> settings.foo
3

If you access a setting with the attribute-style syntax, then nested dictionaries can also be accessed with that syntax. In this example, the FOO environment variable is set to ‘{“bar”: {“baz”: 1.23}}’

>>> l.add('FOO', 'foo', typ=json.loads)
>>> settings = l.load()
>>> settings.foo.bar.baz
1.23

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