[IPython-dev] IPython.config, HasTraits, Traitlets as an independent library?
Robert McGbibbon
rmcgibbo at gmail.com
Mon Apr 15 21:17:12 EDT 2013
Hey,
I've become convinced that IPython's traits-based configuration system
is awesome, and really useful for other
projects that have a command line app that needs to be configured,
either with command line flags or a config file. I really like how it
lets me keep my apps DRY, by automatically exposing a traitlet as a
configurable command line option without having to repeat the
docstring/helptext, and how you basically get file based configuration
in addition to command line configuration basically for free.
Are others using the IPython config system outside of the IPython
codebase itself? There's not a lot of documentation, but I think it
really beats systems like the cement framework.
I'm wondering if it makes sense to think about the config system as a
modular framework to be used by other packages as well. The logical
extension of that would be to spin it off as another repo/project that
IPython depended on, but that's a little premature. More realistic would
be to write up maybe some documentation on how to use the config system
in your own app.
-Robert
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