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configer 1.3.1

Configer
This is the repository for the package CONFIGER helps with easy configuration of arguments in a python code.
Introduction
When Python programs grow large, one would eventually need a way to load configurations through a file. The common answer to this would by Python's ConfigParser. But at least I find the result of using ConfigParse an ugly code:
import ConfigParser
Config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
Config.read("c:\\tomorrow.ini")
Config.get(section, option)

That's why I packaged my solution to this issue. Configer basically gives you a flattened ConfigParser with extra functionality:

dot-access of values in the settings file
dump settings to a file for later use
add different settings while choosing to overload previous one.

Dependencies
This package is written for Python 2.7.
The only dependency is configparser and will be installed automatically by the setup.py.
Installation
In the root directory, type in
pip install .

Examples
Overall Configer will be a sleek way to disentangle settings away from the mechanics. An exact copy of the above code will be:
from configer import Configer
Config = Configer(default_ps_fname='c:\\tomorrow.ini')
Config.option

Note that you don't have sections anymore and you can access an option with a dot-access approach.
Other use cases would be:

Loading default settings
default_ps_fname = 'pyconfiger/Configer/test/sample_settings.ini'
ps = Configer(default_ps_fname=default_ps_fname)
print(ps.status) # None

Loading default settings while adding new arguments
ps = Configer(default_ps_fname=default_ps_fname, status=False)
print(ps.status) # False
ps.status = True
print(ps.status) # True
ps.new_status = True
print(ps.new_status) # True

Loading default settings while initializing with a dictionary of arguments
ps = Configer(default_ps_fname=default_ps_fname, status=False,**{'somethings': [1.0, 2.0]})
print(ps.somethings) # [1.0, 2.0]

Adding and overloading with a second Configer instance
ps1 = Configer(status=False)
ps2 = Configer(status=True, othersetting = 'this')

ps3 = ps1 + ps2
print(ps3.status) # False
print(ps3.othersetting) # 'this'

ps4 = ps1.overload(ps2)
print(ps4.status) # True

Dumping current Configer instance as an .ini file
ps = Configer(default_ps_fname=default_ps_fname, status=False)
print(ps.status) # False
ps.dump_settings(fname='~/settings.ini') # saves the settings to the specified file

Tests
To run the tests, type in in the root directory:
python -m unittest discover

License
See LICENSE.txt
Author
Nima Ghorbani, nima.ghorbani@tuebingen.mpg.de