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How to implement a server application that can reload configuration without restart
I have a game server implemented in Python to which clients can connect and play against each other.
I'd like to be able to reload configuration from a config file without restarting the server (as ...
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How to handle root paths in a custom package?
I am writing a custom python package, which produces some files in a certain directory. This directory I call root_path and should be set by the user. So basically, it should be a conf variable but ...
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The notion of configurable strategies
I'm designing an algorithm that matches entries based on some notion of "proximity" (for the sake of discussion, assume we're matching floats). Furthermore:
The input is a scalar and a ...
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Should I "modularize" my configuration file into different files?
I have a simulation in Python which reads its configuration from a toml file. Since I have tons of parameters, the toml file can grow quite large.
This is an example file, similar in structure to my ...
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How to handle config/env vars in a library project
I am building a new Python library project to be consumed by several of my application projects. The existing code consumes environment variables for various configuration settings. Should my ...
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Improvement of the config file management
I am working on a personal project for more than 6 months now, this project is composed of three distinct parts, simulation (wrapping a software),
database related stuff (store the simulated data in a ...
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How to deal with configuration files that are becoming too complex
There is a db with tables of genes. And these genes would need to be annotated based on the client's needs. So if a gene matches condition x, then add a new column y and value z to that gene. Every ...
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Looking for best practices of storing configurations that will be read/write frequently
I'm writing a couple small python scripts to do tasks and act as 'bots' in some applications that will all read/write things for configuration and some very low-level logging of information; Whats the ...
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Manage several procedures
I have a software project which grows rapidly in an unexpected way, many customers request similar tasks but with slightly different needs and parameters. I start to dislike my current code structure ...
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How bad of an idea is it to use Python files as configuration files?
I've always used JSON files for configuration of my applications. I started using them from when I coded a lot of Java, and now I'm working mainly on server-side and data science Python development ...
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Custom language with mixed markup and Python, parsing in Python
I need a system for creating Python subclasses in a simple manner, and I was thinking of using a (custom) config language similar to json, xml, etc.
Here's the initial structure I thought of (one ...
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How to properly handle global parameters for unit testing in python?
We are implementing many algorithms which typically have lots of shared, publicly known and security-relevant parameters.
Currently, we simply use a class holding all the parameters and two ...
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How to best encapsulate features in code and enabling/disabling them at runtime?
I would like to be able to abstract each feature developed by the team in a way that it can be enabled or disabled at runtime by using a distributed shared configuration system. Features are small and ...
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How to handle configuration of Python modules, especially when used standalone and in frameworks like Django
I am trying to package a Python module for pip, following the guide here.
One area I would like feedback on is best practices or convention for making my module configurable. The module is a library ...
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Specifying options "hard coded", in an interpreted language
In a language like Python or JavaScript (NodeJS), is there anything wrong with defining "the configuration file" as a file which essentially hard-codes the configuration settings? For example:
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