Minimalistic Python library for your configs.

Betterconf (better config) is a Python library for project configuration managment. It allows you define your config like a regular Python class.

Features:

• Easy to hack.
• Less boilerplate.
• Minimal code to do big things.

Installation

I recommend you to use poetry:

poetry add betterconf

However, you can use pip:

pip install betterconf

How to?

Try to write a simple config:

from betterconf import field, Config

class MyConfig(Config):
    my_var = field("my_var")

cfg = MyConfig()
print(cfg.my_var)

Try to run:

my_var=1 python our_file.py

With default values:

from betterconf import field, Config

class MyConfig(Config):
    my_var = field("my_var", default="hello world")
    my_second_var = field("my_second_var", default=lambda: "hi") # can be callable!

cfg = MyConfig()
print(cfg.my_var)
print(cfg.my_second_var)
# hello world
# hi

Override values when it's needed (for an example: test cases)

from betterconf import field, Config

class MyConfig(Config):
    my_var = field("my_var", default="hello world")

cfg = MyConfig(my_var="WOW!")
print(cfg.my_var)
# WOW!

By default betterconf gets all values from os.environ but sometimes we need much. You can create own field's value provider in minutes:

from betterconf import field, Config
from betterconf.config import AbstractProvider

class NameProvider(AbstractProvider):
    def get(self, name: str):
        return name

class Cfg(Config):
    my_var = field("my_var", provider=NameProvider())

cfg = Cfg()
print(cfg.my_var)
# my_var

Also we can cast our values to python objects (or just manipulate them):

from betterconf import field, Config
# out of the box we have `to_bool` and `to_int`
from betterconf.caster import to_bool, to_int, AbstractCaster


class DashToDotCaster(AbstractCaster):
    def cast(self, val: str):
        return val.replace("-", ".")

to_dot = DashToDotCaster()

class Cfg(Config):
    integer = field("integer", caster=to_int)
    boolean = field("boolean", caster=to_bool)
    dots = field("dashes", caster=to_dot)

cfg = Cfg()
print(cfg.integer, cfg.boolean, cfg.dots)
# -500, True, hello.world

integer=-500 boolean=true dashes=hello-world python our_file.py

License

This project is licensed under MIT License.

See LICENSE for details.

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