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Easy dict-based script configuration with CLI support

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Write simple configs and update from CLI, kwargs, and/or json.

The scriptconfig provides a simple way to make configurable scripts using a combination of config files, command line arguments, and simple Python keyword arguments. A script config object is defined by creating a subclass of Config with a default dict class attribute. An instance of a custom Config object will behave similar a dictionary, but with a few conveniences.

To get started lets consider some example usage:

>>> import scriptconfig as scfg
>>> # In its simplest incarnation, the config class specifies default values.
>>> # For each configuration parameter.
>>> class ExampleConfig(scfg.Config):
>>>     default = {
>>>         'num': 1,
>>>         'mode': 'bar',
>>>         'ignore': ['baz', 'biz'],
>>>     }
>>> # Creating an instance, starts using the defaults
>>> config = ExampleConfig()
>>> # Typically you will want to update default from a dict or file.  By
>>> # specifying cmdline=True you denote that it is ok for the contents of
>>> # `sys.argv` to override config values. Here we pass a dict to `load`.
>>> kwargs = {'num': 2}
>>> config.load(kwargs, cmdline=False)
>>> assert config['num'] == 2
>>> # The `load` method can also be passed a json/yaml file/path.
>>> config_fpath = '/tmp/foo'
>>> open(config_fpath, 'w').write('{"num": 3}')
>>> config.load(config_fpath, cmdline=False)
>>> assert config['num'] == 3
>>> # It is possbile to load only from CLI by setting cmdline=True
>>> # or by setting it to a custom sys.argv
>>> config.load(cmdline=['--num=4'])
>>> assert config['num'] == 4
>>> # Note that using `config.load(cmdline=True)` will just use the
>>> # contents of sys.argv

Features

  • Serializes to json

  • Dict-like interface. By default a Config object operates independent of config files or the command line.

  • Can create command line interfaces

    • Can directly create an independent argparse object

    • Can use special command line loading using self.load(cmdline=True). This extends the basic argparse interface with:

      • Can specify options as either --option value or --option=value

      • Default config options allow for “smartcasting” values like lists and paths

      • Automatically add --config, --dumps, and --dump CLI options when reading cmdline via load.

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