[Python-ideas] Fwd: argparse - add support for environment variables

[Michael Foord]

On 20 February 2013 06:59, Vito De Tullio <vito.detullio at gmail.com> wrote:

> Eli Bendersky wrote:
>
> > In general, I'm -1 on the idea. argparse is for parsing command line
> > arguments. Python provides you convenient access to env vars via
> > os.environ. Why mix up the two?
>
> well, command line arguments, environmental variables and, I add,
> configuration files are commonly intertwined.
>
> While argparse focus on the first one, there are cases where you want some
> "layer" on top of it and on os.environ and on... ConfigParser?) to DRY.
>
>

configglue combines support for config files (and hierarchies of config
files) with command line arguments.

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/configglue/

Michael


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