Description:

rcfile 0.1.4

Configuration file loader for Python projects
Based on: https://github.com/dominictarr/rc

Features
Read environment variables and config files and return them merged with predefined list of arguments.

Arguments:

appname: application name, used for config files and environemnt variable names.
args: arguments from command line (optparse, docopt, etc).
strip_dashes: strip dashes prefixing key names from args dict.


Returns:
dict containing the merged variables of environment variables, config files and args.


Environment variables are read if they start with appname in uppercase with underscore, for example:
TEST_VAR=1
Config files compatible with ConfigParser are read and the section name appname is read, example:
[appname]
var=1

Files are read from:

/etc/appname/config
/etc/appfilerc
~/.config/appname/config
~/.config/appname
~/.appname/config
~/.appnamerc
.appnamerc
file provided by config variable in args



Example usage with docopt:
args = rcfile(__name__, docopt(__doc__, version=__version__))

TODO



Requirements

Python >= 2.6 or >= 3.3



License
MIT licensed. See the bundled LICENSE file for more details.

License

For personal and professional use. You cannot resell or redistribute these repositories in their original state.

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