Gila — Gila 0.5.0 documentation

import gila
from os import environ

# Setting default values for keys
gila.set_default('host', 'localhost:8080')
gila.set_default('allow_insecure', False)

# This will tell Gila to automatically load in ENV vars that start with GILA
gila.set_env_prefix('GILA')
gila.automatic_env()

# This would normally be done outside of program
# eg. in docker compose or k8s manifest
environ['GILA_HOST'] = 'localhost:9999'

# This is the preferred method of grabbing
# the configurations. Other methods exist (all_config, debug)
# but this method is the most performant for single
# value calls.
host = gila.get('host')
allow_insecure = gila.get('allow_insecure')

"""
Output:
Host: localhost:9999
Insecure allowed: false
"""
print(f'Host: {host}')
print(f'Insecure allowed: {allow_insecure}')

Features¶

• Easily load in config values for use in your 12factor application

• Allow default values to be set for each config key

• Automatically find config files on multiple paths

• Load in environment variables automatically that have a specific prefix

• Support most popular config languages: yaml, toml, json, properties files, hcl, dotenv

• Singleton pattern for ease of use in most applications

You can either use the Gila library as a singleton pattern, by using

import gila

gila.get("key")

or you can create an instance to use in your application like this

import gila

gila_instance = Gila()
gila_instance.get("key")

All functions of the gila class are available in the singleton instance with the addition of gila.reset(), which will reset the singleton instance back to empty.

License¶

Gila is released under the MPL2.0 License. See LICENSE file for details.