config_py

A Python library for managing application configurations based on Convention Over Configuration principle.

This library is trying to solve the next problem: when you run an app in different environments (development, test etc.), you need to load different configuration parameters based on those environments. For example, you run an app in development with DB_USERNAME = 'root', but in production you would like that value to be DB_USERNAME = os.getenv('DB_USER').

Notable features

1. Convention Over Configuration
2. It's just Python modules and packages
3. Scaffolding

Prerequisites

• Python 3
• pip

Installation

pip install config-py

Basic usage

This package provides a CLI for scaffolding configuration setup. Assuming you have a Python package called my_package given the next directory structure:

\-- project
    +-- my_package
    │   \-- __init__.py
    |   \-- main.py

If you are in project directory, in order to generate a configuration for my_package, run:

config_py -p my_package

The command above will generate a config package inside of my_package, so that directory structure looks like this after:

\-- project
    +-- my_package
    │   \-- __init__.py
    |   \-- main.py
    |   +-- config
    |       \-- __init__.py
    |       \-- config_dev.py

Let's put sample configuration value in newly created config_dev.py:

TEST='TEST'

Now, if you import configuration in main.py:

from .config import TEST

print(TEST)

and you run main.py, the constant TEST is going to be imported from config_dev.py (dev is default environment):

python -m my_package.main # prints TEST value imported from config_dev.py

Adding new environment

If you want something more than default dev you should create new config file inside package's config directory:

touch {your_module}/config/config_prod.py

Then put the same TEST variable there:

TEST='NOPE'

If you run your module with WSGI_EVN set to prod module will pick up values from this file.

Loading a configuration for a different environment

In order to load a new configuration for a different environment, let's name it stage environment, you have to create a file config/config_stage.py, and provide WSGI_ENV env variable like this:

WSGI_ENV=stage python -m my_package.main # prints TEST value imported from config_stage.py

As you can see, we imported a configuration for stage environment by adding a separate configuration file config/config_stage.py for that environment and without making any changes to the calling code.

Root configuration package

There is a use case when you may want to have a root configuration package, and share that configuration between other packages at the root level (and those packages may have their own configurations as well). Given the next directory structure:

\-- project
    +-- my_package
    │   \-- __init__.py
    |   \-- main.py
    |   +-- config
    +-- my_package1
    │   \-- __init__.py
    |   \-- main.py

in project directory run:

config_py

It will result in creating root config module:

\-- project
    +-- my_package
    │   \-- __init__.py
    |   \-- main.py
    |   +-- config
    +-- my_package1
    │   \-- __init__.py
    |   \-- main.py
    +-- config
    |   \-- __init__.py
    |   \-- config_dev.py

Both my_package/main.py and my_package1/main.py can import this config like this

from config import TEST

print(TEST)

and running python -m my_package.main and python -m my_package1.main respectively will print a value of TEST from config_dev.py (default config file as described in Basic usage).

Other options

In order to get a list of other available options, run:

config_py -h

If you want to use different name of ENV_VAR providing environment setup (dev, stage...) than WSGI_ENV you can use -e or --env_var option while generating config:

config_py -p my_module -e NAME_OF_ENVIRONMENT_VAR

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.