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Envolved is a library to make environment variable parsing powerful and effortless.
documentation: https://envolved.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
from envolved import env_var, EnvVar
# create an env var with an int value
foo: EnvVar[int] = env_var('FOO', type=int, default=0)
value_of_foo = foo.get() # this method will check for the environment variable FOO, and parse it as an int
# we can also have some more complex parsers
from typing import List, Optional
from envolved.parsers import CollectionParser
foo = env_var('FOO', type=CollectionParser(',', int))
foo.get() # now we will parse the value of FOO as a comma-separated list of ints
# we can also use schemas to combine multiple environment variables
from dataclasses import dataclass
@dataclass
# say we want the environment to describe a ConnectionSetting
class ConnectionSetting:
host: str
port: int
user: Optional[str]
password: Optional[str]
connection_settings: EnvVar[ConnectionSetting] = env_var('service_', type=ConnectionSetting, args={
'host': env_var('hostname'),
# we now define an env var as an argument. Its suffix will be "hostname", and its type will be inferred from the
# type's annotation
'port': env_var('port'),
'user': env_var('username', type=str), # for most types, we can infer the type from the annotation, though we can
# also override it if we want
'password': env_var('password', type=str, default=None) # we can also set a default value per arg
})
service_connection_settings: ConnectionSetting = connection_settings.get()
# this will look in 4 environment variables:
# host will be extracted from service_hostname
# port will be extracted from service_port, then converted to an int
# user will be extracted from service_username
# password will be extracted from service_password, and will default to None
# finally, ConnectionSetting will be called with the parameters
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We found that envolved demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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