Alchemy Config

The aconfig library provides simple yaml configuration in python with environment-based overrides.

Library advantages

Easily reads environment variables with error handling, e.g. for absence of variables or boolean capitalization
Allows users to easily access and traverse nested configuration without checking for key presence on every access
Automatically handles overriding logic - environment variables take precedence over local configuration files

To install, simply use pip

pip install alchemy-config

config.yaml

foo: 1
bar:
    baz: "bat"

main.py

import aconfig

if __name__ == "__main__":
    config = aconfig.Config.from_yaml("config.yaml")
    print(config.foo)
    print(config.bar.baz)

export BAR_BAZ="buz"
python3 main.py

You CAN set builtin method names as attributes on the config. However, you should only access/delete them via dictionary access methods.

For example:

import aconfig
cfg = {"update": True}

config = aconfig.Config(cfg)

# DO NOT DO THIS:
config.update

# DO THIS INSTEAD:
config["update"]

This is because there is no way in Python to tell whether you want the method or the attribute "update" when "getting" it from the object.