profig 0.2.6

Motivation

Why another configuration library? The simple answer is that none of the available options gave me everything I wanted, with an API that I enjoyed using. This library is as close to my ideal as I have been able to come. It tries to provide some (but not too much) powerful functionality, without sacrificing simplicity.

Features

• Automatic value conversion.

• Simple section nesting.

• Dict-like access.

• Easily extensible input/output formats.

Installation

profig installs easily using easy_install or pip:

$ pip install profig

Example

Basic usage is cake. Assuming our config file looks like this (INI formatting is also supported):

server.host: 192.168.1.1
server.port: 9090

First we specify the defaults and types to expect:

>>> cfg = profig.Config('server.cfg')
>>> cfg.init('server.host', 'localhost')
>>> cfg.init('server.port', 8080)

Then we sync our current state with the state of the config file:

>>> cfg.sync()

Then we can access the values directly without any extra effort, either directly:

>>> cfg['server.host']
'192.168.1.1'

Or by section:

>>> server_cfg = cfg.section('server')
>>> server_cfg['port']
9090

Resources

• PyPI

• Repository

• Documentation