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1 .. -*- coding: utf-8; indent-tabs-mode: nil; -*-
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5 Introduction
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6 ============
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8 The configurations can be read from different types of files:
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10 - :ref:`YAML files <yaml-files>`
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12 - :ref:`INI files <ini-files>`
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13 - :ref:`executable Python scripts <executable-python-scripts>`
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18 YAML Files
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23 .. note:: All strings are returned as Unicode text strings.
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25 .. note:: The root object must be a *mapping* and therefore decode into
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28 An example is:
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30 .. literalinclude:: ../tests/data/conf10.yml
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31 :language: yaml
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36 JSON files
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37 ----------
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39 Read the JSON file with the help of Python's native :mod:`json` package.
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46 .. todo:: Handle JSON comments by special attributes which will
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47 filtered out on further processing. Javascript comments are
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48 not allowed by the JSON specification.
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52 .. literalinclude:: ../tests/data/conf10.json
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58 INI Files
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59 ---------
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61 Read the file and all sections named in parameter `extract` are flattened
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62 into the resulting dictionary. By default the section named ``config`` is
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65 Normally all values are returned as Unicode text strings.
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66 But values can be annotated and therefore interpreted as other types:
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68 ``:int:``
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69 The value is handled in the same way as a Python :class:`int`
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70 literal
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88 .. note:: Contrary to the behaviour of the standard Python :mod:`configparser`
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91 The example INI style configuration below yields an equivalent
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100 This example also illustrates how INI sections are used to build a
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101 tree-ish configuration dictionary.
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106 Executable Python Scripts
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107 -------------------------
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109 What will be exported:
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111 1. If loading is done with the `extract` parameter only the given keys are
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121 This is analogous to as Python modules behave when importing them with
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124 .. note:: The Python configuration files are evaluated with ``exec`` and not
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127 The example configuration by Python script below yields an equivalent
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130 .. literalinclude:: ../tests/data/conf10.py
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136 Loading and Merging
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137 -------------------
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139 Basic usage of the API is as follows in this example::
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141 import configmix
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143 #
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144 # Note: With conf10 merging is rather pointless because the tree
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145 # files # are really the same configuration. But is doesn't harm
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146 # also here.
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148 config = configmix.load("conf10.yml", "conf10.ini", "conf10.py")
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150 # Get a -- possibly interpolated -- configuration variable's value
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151 value1 = config.getvar_s("key1")
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153 # Get a -- possibly interpolated -- variable from within the tree
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154 value2 = config.getvar_s("tree1.tree2.key4")
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206 Variable Namespaces
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318 expands to the current running Python version (e.g. ``3.6.4``).
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322 {{PY::implementation|upper}}
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325 interpreter written in C.