Configuration file loader for Python projects

Based on: https://github.com/dominictarr/rc

Read environment variables and config files and return them merged with predefined list of arguments.

Arguments:

• appname: application name, used for config files and environemnt variable names.
• args: arguments from command line (optparse, docopt, etc).
• strip_dashes: strip dashes prefixing key names from args dict.

Returns:

dict containing the merged variables of environment variables, config files and args.

Environment variables are read if they start with appname in uppercase with underscore, for example:

TEST_VAR=1

Config files compatible with ConfigParser are read and the section name appname is read, example:

[appname]
var=1

Files are read from:

• /etc/appname/config
• /etc/appfilerc
• ~/.config/appname/config
• ~/.config/appname
• ~/.appname/config
• ~/.appnamerc
• .appnamerc
• file provided by config variable in args

Example usage with docopt:

args = rcfile(__name__, docopt(__doc__, version=__version__))

• TODO

• Python >= 2.6 or >= 3.3

MIT licensed. See the bundled LICENSE file for more details.