ihih is an attempt to provide simple configuration parsers (for Python) with a dictionary-like interface.

It try to be flexible and let you alter the syntax by sub-classing it.

More informations can be found in the docs directory or online.

Flat by opposition to, "nested" (like JSON, nginx, ...) and "section" (INI files, ...).

Simple, obvious, supporting the features you are used to (ignore blank lines and spaces, support comments, automatic unquoting, ...).

Example:

my_banner   = $myhostname MY-PROGRAM
my_hostname = server.example.net

Example:

>>> print conf['my_banner']
server.example.net MY-PROGRAM

In the following example, user configuration file will take precedence over system-wide configuration file:

conf = IHIH(
   (
      '/etc/example.conf',
      os.path.join(os.path.expanduser('~'), '.example.conf')
   )
)

Example:

conf = IHIH(
   '/etc/example.conf',
   {'lang': 'en', 'TZ': 'UTC'}
)