The Moose Configurator

A python application configuration manager.

Features

  • Manage Application Configurations in PyYaml.
  • Set defaults for missing configuration items.
  • Three levels of configuration.
    • System: /etc/sample/sample.yml
    • User: ~/.config/sample/sample.yml
    • Local: cwd
  • Configuration load and read customization.
    • Force system configuration override.
    • Ignore local configuration.
    • User hidden local configuration (dot-file).
  • XDG specification directory locations.

Quick Start

  1. Install moosecfg
    • global: python -m pip install moosecfg
    • user: python -m pip install --user moosecfg
  2. Create yaml configuration files
    • system: /etc/appname/appname.cfg
    • user: $HOME/.config/appname/appname.cfg
    • local: <cwd>/appname.cfg

  3. Read the configuration

    cfg = MooseConfigurator('appname') print(f'configuration object: {cfg.obj}')

Usage

from moosecfg.config import MooseConfigurator

MooseConfigurator.SYSTEM_OVERRIDE = True

cfg = MooseConfigurator('coolapp')

server = cfg.obj.get('servername')
proxy = cfg.obj.get('proxy')
ptqmax = cfg.obj.get('ptq_max')

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