Metadata-Version: 2.1 Name: python-decouple Version: 3.3 Summary: Strict separation of settings from code. Home-page: http://github.com/henriquebastos/python-decouple/ Author: Henrique Bastos Author-email: henrique@bastos.net License: MIT Platform: any Classifier: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable Classifier: Framework :: Django Classifier: Framework :: Flask Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License Classifier: Natural Language :: English Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent Classifier: Programming Language :: Python Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3 Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries Python Decouple: Strict separation of settings from code ======================================================== *Decouple* helps you to organize your settings so that you can change parameters without having to redeploy your app. It also makes it easy for you to: #. store parameters in *ini* or *.env* files; #. define comprehensive default values; #. properly convert values to the correct data type; #. have **only one** configuration module to rule all your instances. It was originally designed for Django, but became an independent generic tool for separating settings from code. .. image:: https://img.shields.io/travis/henriquebastos/python-decouple.svg :target: https://travis-ci.org/henriquebastos/python-decouple :alt: Build Status .. image:: https://landscape.io/github/henriquebastos/python-decouple/master/landscape.png :target: https://landscape.io/github/henriquebastos/python-decouple/master :alt: Code Health .. image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/python-decouple.svg :target: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-decouple/ :alt: Latest PyPI version .. contents:: Summary Why? ==== Web framework's settings stores many different kinds of parameters: * Locale and i18n; * Middlewares and Installed Apps; * Resource handles to the database, Memcached, and other backing services; * Credentials to external services such as Amazon S3 or Twitter; * Per-deploy values such as the canonical hostname for the instance. The first 2 are *project settings* the last 3 are *instance settings*. You should be able to change *instance settings* without redeploying your app. Why not just use environment variables? --------------------------------------- *Envvars* works, but since ``os.environ`` only returns strings, it's tricky. Let's say you have an *envvar* ``DEBUG=False``. If you run: .. code-block:: python if os.environ['DEBUG']: print True else: print False It will print **True**, because ``os.environ['DEBUG']`` returns the **string** ``"False"``. Since it's a non-empty string, it will be evaluated as True. *Decouple* provides a solution that doesn't look like a workaround: ``config('DEBUG', cast=bool)``. Usage ===== Install: .. code-block:: console pip install python-decouple Then use it on your ``settings.py``. #. Import the ``config`` object: .. code-block:: python from decouple import config #. Retrieve the configuration parameters: .. code-block:: python SECRET_KEY = config('SECRET_KEY') DEBUG = config('DEBUG', default=False, cast=bool) EMAIL_HOST = config('EMAIL_HOST', default='localhost') EMAIL_PORT = config('EMAIL_PORT', default=25, cast=int) Encodings --------- Decouple's default encoding is `UTF-8`. But you can specify your preferred encoding. Since `config` is lazy and only opens the configuration file when it's first needed, you have the chance to change it's encoding right after import. .. code-block:: python from decouple import config config.encoding = 'cp1251' SECRET_KEY = config('SECRET_KEY') If you wish to fallback to your system's default encoding do: .. code-block:: python import locale from decouple import config config.encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding(False) SECRET_KEY = config('SECRET_KEY') Where the settings data are stored? ----------------------------------- *Decouple* supports both *.ini* and *.env* files. Ini file ~~~~~~~~ Simply create a ``settings.ini`` next to your configuration module in the form: .. code-block:: ini [settings] DEBUG=True TEMPLATE_DEBUG=%(DEBUG)s SECRET_KEY=ARANDOMSECRETKEY DATABASE_URL=mysql://myuser:mypassword@myhost/mydatabase PERCENTILE=90%% #COMMENTED=42 *Note*: Since ``ConfigParser`` supports *string interpolation*, to represent the character ``%`` you need to escape it as ``%%``. Env file ~~~~~~~~ Simply create a ``.env`` text file on your repository's root directory in the form: .. code-block:: console DEBUG=True TEMPLATE_DEBUG=True SECRET_KEY=ARANDOMSECRETKEY DATABASE_URL=mysql://myuser:mypassword@myhost/mydatabase PERCENTILE=90% #COMMENTED=42 Example: How do I use it with Django? ------------------------------------- Given that I have a ``.env`` file at my repository root directory, here is a snippet of my ``settings.py``. I also recommend using `pathlib `_ and `dj-database-url `_. .. code-block:: python # coding: utf-8 from decouple import config from unipath import Path from dj_database_url import parse as db_url BASE_DIR = Path(__file__).parent DEBUG = config('DEBUG', default=False, cast=bool) TEMPLATE_DEBUG = DEBUG DATABASES = { 'default': config( 'DATABASE_URL', default='sqlite:///' + BASE_DIR.child('db.sqlite3'), cast=db_url ) } TIME_ZONE = 'America/Sao_Paulo' USE_L10N = True USE_TZ = True SECRET_KEY = config('SECRET_KEY') EMAIL_HOST = config('EMAIL_HOST', default='localhost') EMAIL_PORT = config('EMAIL_PORT', default=25, cast=int) EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = config('EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD', default='') EMAIL_HOST_USER = config('EMAIL_HOST_USER', default='') EMAIL_USE_TLS = config('EMAIL_USE_TLS', default=False, cast=bool) # ... Attention with *undefined* parameters ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On the above example, all configuration parameters except ``SECRET_KEY = config('SECRET_KEY')`` have a default value to fallback if it does not exist on the ``.env`` file. If ``SECRET_KEY`` is not present in the ``.env``, *decouple* will raise an ``UndefinedValueError``. This *fail fast* policy helps you avoid chasing misbehaviors when you eventually forget a parameter. Overriding config files with environment variables ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sometimes you may want to change a parameter value without having to edit the ``.ini`` or ``.env`` files. Since version 3.0, *decouple* respects the *unix way*. Therefore environment variables have precedence over config files. To override a config parameter you can simply do: .. code-block:: console DEBUG=True python manage.py How it works? ============= *Decouple* always searches for *Options* in this order: #. Environment variables; #. Repository: ini or .env file; #. default argument passed to config. There are 4 classes doing the magic: - ``Config`` Coordinates all the configuration retrieval. - ``RepositoryIni`` Can read values from ``os.environ`` and ini files, in that order. **Note:** Since version 3.0 *decouple* respects unix precedence of environment variables *over* config files. - ``RepositoryEnv`` Can read values from ``os.environ`` and ``.env`` files. **Note:** Since version 3.0 *decouple* respects unix precedence of environment variables *over* config files. - ``AutoConfig`` This is a *lazy* ``Config`` factory that detects which configuration repository you're using. It recursively searches up your configuration module path looking for a ``settings.ini`` or a ``.env`` file. Optionally, it accepts ``search_path`` argument to explicitly define where the search starts. The **config** object is an instance of ``AutoConfig`` that instantiates a ``Config`` with the proper ``Repository`` on the first time it is used. Understanding the CAST argument ------------------------------- By default, all values returned by ``decouple`` are ``strings``, after all they are read from ``text files`` or the ``envvars``. However, your Python code may expect some other value type, for example: * Django's ``DEBUG`` expects a boolean ``True`` or ``False``. * Django's ``EMAIL_PORT`` expects an ``integer``. * Django's ``ALLOWED_HOSTS`` expects a ``list`` of hostnames. * Django's ``SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER`` expects a ``tuple`` with two elements, the name of the header to look for and the required value. To meet this need, the ``config`` function accepts a ``cast`` argument which receives any *callable*, that will be used to *transform* the string value into something else. Let's see some examples for the above mentioned cases: .. code-block:: python >>> os.environ['DEBUG'] = 'False' >>> config('DEBUG', cast=bool) False >>> os.environ['EMAIL_PORT'] = '42' >>> config('EMAIL_PORT', cast=int) 42 >>> os.environ['ALLOWED_HOSTS'] = '.localhost, .herokuapp.com' >>> config('ALLOWED_HOSTS', cast=lambda v: [s.strip() for s in v.split(',')]) ['.localhost', '.herokuapp.com'] >>> os.environ['SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER'] = 'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO, https' >>> config('SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER', cast=Csv(post_process=tuple)) ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https') As you can see, ``cast`` is very flexible. But the last example got a bit complex. Built in Csv Helper ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To address the complexity of the last example, *Decouple* comes with an extensible *Csv helper*. Let's improve the last example: .. code-block:: python >>> from decouple import Csv >>> os.environ['ALLOWED_HOSTS'] = '.localhost, .herokuapp.com' >>> config('ALLOWED_HOSTS', cast=Csv()) ['.localhost', '.herokuapp.com'] You can also have a `default` value that must be a string to be processed by `Csv`. .. code-block:: python >>> from decouple import Csv >>> config('ALLOWED_HOSTS', default='127.0.0.1', cast=Csv()) ['127.0.0.1'] You can also parametrize the *Csv Helper* to return other types of data. .. code-block:: python >>> os.environ['LIST_OF_INTEGERS'] = '1,2,3,4,5' >>> config('LIST_OF_INTEGERS', cast=Csv(int)) [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] >>> os.environ['COMPLEX_STRING'] = '%virtual_env%\t *important stuff*\t trailing spaces ' >>> csv = Csv(cast=lambda s: s.upper(), delimiter='\t', strip=' %*') >>> csv(os.environ['COMPLEX_STRING']) ['VIRTUAL_ENV', 'IMPORTANT STUFF', 'TRAILING SPACES'] By default *Csv* returns a ``list``, but you can get a ``tuple`` or whatever you want using the ``post_process`` argument: .. code-block:: python >>> os.environ['SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER'] = 'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO, https' >>> config('SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER', cast=Csv(post_process=tuple)) ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https') Contribute ========== Your contribution is welcome. Setup your development environment: .. code-block:: console git clone git@github.com:henriquebastos/python-decouple.git cd python-decouple python -m venv .venv source .venv/bin/activate pip install -r requirements.txt tox *Decouple* supports both Python 2.7 and 3.6. Make sure you have both installed. I use `pyenv `_ to manage multiple Python versions and I described my workspace setup on this article: `The definitive guide to setup my Python workspace `_ You can submit pull requests and issues for discussion. However I only consider merging tested code. 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