confiddler

confiddler has tools to help you define and load YAML configuration files.

Here’s the basic idea:

  1. Define your config file structure with a JSON schema. (See json-schema.org or jsonschema).

  2. Help your users get started by showing them a default config file which is:

    • auto-generated from your defaults, and
    • auto-commented with your schema description.
  3. Load a user’s config file with confiddler.load_config(), which will:

    • validate it against your schema
    • auto-inject default values for any settings the user omitted

See the Quickstart for a short example.

Install

Install from PyPI:

pip install confiddler

…or with conda:

conda install -c stuarteberg -c conda-forge confiddler