painless YAML config files for Python
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Confuse is a configuration library for Python that uses
YAML_. It takes care of defaults, overrides, type checking, command-line integration, human-readable errors, and standard OS-specific locations.
Here’s what Confuse brings to the table:
An utterly sensible API resembling dictionary-and-list structures but providing transparent validation without lots of boilerplate code. Type
config['num_goats'].get(int)to get the configured number of goats and ensure that it’s an integer.
Combine configuration data from multiple sources. Using layering, Confuse allows user-specific configuration to seamlessly override system-wide configuration, which in turn overrides built-in defaults. An in-package
config_default.yamlcan be used to provide bottom-layer defaults using the same syntax that users will see. A runtime overlay allows the program to programmatically override and add configuration values.
Look for configuration files in platform-specific paths. Like
$XDG_CONFIG_HOMEor
~/.configon Unix; "Application Support" on macOS;
%APPDATA%on Windows. Your program gets its own directory, which you can use to store additional data. You can transparently create this directory on demand if, for example, you need to initialize the configuration file on first run. And an environment variable can be used to override the directory's location.
Integration with command-line arguments via
argparse_ or
optparse_ from the standard library. Use argparse's declarative API to allow command-line options to override configured defaults.
Confuse is available on
PyPI_ and can be installed using :code:
pip:
.. code-block:: sh
pip install confuse
Confuse's documentation_ describes its API in detail.
Confuse was made to power
beets. Like beets, it is available under the
MIT license.
.. _ConfigParser: http://docs.python.org/library/configparser.html .. _YAML: http://yaml.org/ .. _optparse: http://docs.python.org/dev/library/optparse.html .. _argparse: http://docs.python.org/dev/library/argparse.html .. _logging: http://docs.python.org/library/logging.html .. _Confuse's documentation: http://confuse.readthedocs.org/en/latest/usage.html .. _MIT license: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php .. _beets: https://github.com/beetbox/beets