Magic Config library for Python

A simple library for easy handling of environment variables

I published the library as an open source project, maybe it will be useful for someone.

I needed a singleton object that stores all my settings from the .env file, as well as environment variables.

I also needed to be able to set the type of environment variables, so I could operate with logical values or numbers, not just strings.

I also want to have a universal object, where I can access variables in any case. It would also be convenient for me to access variables not only as object properties, but also as dictionary keys (for example, when I need a programmatically generated key name).

Installation

The library published in pypi.org

GitHub - frontdevops/magic-config: A simple library for easy handling of .env files and environment…

pip install magic-config

Examples

DEBUG=1 myapp.py

In my app script:

Configure custom variables

You can add variables to the object:

Prepared autogenerators for DB URIs

For example in .env file you can write only this data:

MONGO_HOST="127.0.0.1"
MONGO_USER="user"
MONGO_PWD="*****"
MONGO_DB="test"
MONGO_PORT=27017

and in code you can call the MONGO_URL

output:

mongodb://user:passwd@127.0.0.1:27017/test?authSource=admin&tls=false

Set type casting for environment variables

For example if you create in source root magic.config file and write:

DEBUG="bool"
DEBUG_STEP="bool"
DEBUG_USER_ID="int"

then you run

DEBUG=1 DEBUG_STEP=1 DEBUG_USER_ID=10011888 python server.py

Source code

GitHub - frontdevops/magic-config: A simple library for easy handling of .env files and environment…

How I publish it in PyPi

A little note on how I did it. When I did everything according to the instructions and articles from other authors — nothing worked for me. I had to find my own way.

How to publish an Open-Source Python package to PyPI repository