settngs/README.md
Timmy Welch d2326eadb9
Add support for persistent setting groups
Persistent setting groups allow settings that are not declared to
 survive normalization and other operations that would normally remove
 any unknown keys in a group.

Calling normalize or get_namespace with persistent=False will remove
 unknown keys even from persistent groups.

Currently the only way to retrieve the defaults for a config and
 preserve unknown keys is to manually get the defaults and update each
 existing group with the default values.
2023-01-31 19:18:09 -08:00

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# Settngs
This library is an attempt to merge reading flags/options from the commandline (argparse) and settings from a file (json).
It is a modified argparse inspired by how [flake8] loads their settings. Note that this does not attempt to be a drop-in replacement for argparse.
Install with pip
```console
pip install settngs
```
A trivial example is included at the bottom of settngs.py with the output below (using bash). For a more complete example see [ComicTagger].
```console
$ python -m settngs
Hello world
$ python -m settngs --hello lordwelch
Hello lordwelch
$ python -m settngs --hello lordwelch -s
Hello lordwelch
Successfully saved settings to settings.json
$ python -m settngs
Hello lordwelch
$ python -m settngs -v
Hello lordwelch
merged_namespace.values.example_verbose=True
$ python -m settngs -v -s
Hello lordwelch
Successfully saved settings to settings.json
merged_namespace.values.example_verbose=True
$ python -m settngs
Hello lordwelch
merged_namespace.values.example_verbose=True
$ cat >settings.json << EOF
{
"example": {
"hello": "lordwelch",
"verbose": true
},
"persistent": {
"test": false,
"hello": "world"
}
}
EOF
$ python -m settngs --no-verbose
Hello lordwelch
$ python -m settngs --no-verbose -s
Hello lordwelch
Successfully saved settings to settings.json
$ python -m settngs --hello world --no-verbose -s
Hello world
Successfully saved settings to settings.json
$ python -m settngs
Hello world
```
settngs.json at the end:
```json
{
"example": {
"hello": "world",
"verbose": false
},
"persistent": false,
"hello": "world"
}
```
## What happened to the 'i'?
PyPi wouldn't let me use 'settings'
[flake8]: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8
[ComicTagger]: https://github.com/comictagger/comictagger