config-enhance

config-enhance adds re-use capabilities to ConfigParser style config files.

It introduces a reserved key: '<<='

The '<<=' key should be assigned a list of enhancements like:

[section]
<<=
    <other1
    +other2
    <other3
    -other4

Each enhancement is composed of an operator followed by a section name. The operators are:

• '<' : mix things in from another section if they don't already exist
• '+' : pull config from another section, overwrite settings in the current section if there is a clash.
• '-' : remove config items that exist in the source section from this section

You can use it like this:

from config_enhance import enhance

cp = ConfigParser (file ("my.cfg"))
enhance(cp)

Suppose that my.cfg contains content like:

[common]
flup = 1.0
requests = 2.0

[tes_100]
<<= <common
requests = 5.0
tornado = 6.0

[dev_tes_common]
tornado = 6.0d

[dev_unpin]
flup = unpin

[dev_tes_100]
<<=
    <tes_100
    +dev_tes_common
    -dev_unpin

After running enhance, 'cp' will be modified to contain:

[common]
flup = 1.0
requests = 2.0

[tes_100]
flup = 1.0
requests = 5.0
tornado = 6.0

[dev_tes_common]
tornado = 6.0d

[dev_unpin]
flup = unpin

[dev_tes_100]
requests = 5.0
tornado = 6.0d

target audience

config-enhance is useful when managing version requirement sections in buildout. Buildout already contains limited reuse features through the '<=' idiom. But, version management is easier with an extended set.

Other docs of interest

config parser documentation