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A library for users to write (experiment in research) configurations in Python Dict or JSON format, read and write parameter value viadot.
in code, while can read parameters from the command line to modify values.
Nhãn Labels: Python, Command Line, commandline, config, configuration, parameters, mệnh lệnh hành, phối trí, truyền tham, tham số giá trị sửa chữa.
Github URL:https://github /NaiboWang/CommandlineConfig
The following fields are reserved and cannot be used as parameter names:config_name
.
- Support infinite level nesting of parameters in dictionary
- Automatic version checking
- Support parameter value constrained to specified value (enumeration)
- Support for tuple type
- Support reading configuration from local JSON file
- Support for setting parameter help and printing parameter descriptions via command line
-h
- Documentation updates, provide simple example
# Install via pip
pip3installcommandline_config
# import package
fromcommandline_configimportConfig
# Define configuration dictionary
config={
"index":1,
"lr":0.1,
"dbinfo":{
"username":"NUS"
}
}
# Generate configuration class based on configuration dict
c=Config(config)
# Print the configuration of the parameters
print(c)
# Read and write parameters directly via dot. and support multiple layers.
c.index=2
c.dbinfo.username="ZJU"
print(c.index,c.dbinfo.username,c["lr"])
# On the command line, modify the parameter values with --
Pythonexample.py--index3--dbinfo.usernameXDU
# Get the parameter descriptions via the help method in the code, or on the command line via -h or -help (customization required, see detailed documentation below for details)
c.help()
Pythonexample.py-h
- Tiếng Trung hồ sơ
- Easy-to-use Commandline Configuration Tool
- Reserved Fields
- New Features
- Simple Example
- Catalogue
- Usage
- Advanced options
- Things need attention
- Conflict with Argparse
- Input value forced conversion
- The list parameter needs to be assigned with a backslash before the string element quotes when passing by commandline
- Quotes are required for command-line assignment of tuple parameters, and string elements must be preceded by a backslash
- Parameter naming convention
- Unlimited layer of nested objects
- Parameter integrity check, all parameters to be modified must be predefined
- Special configurations in zsh environment
- Full conversion example
- Example Running Script
- Shattered thoughts
- TODO
If you encounter any problems during using with this tool, please raise an issue in the github page of this project, I will solve the bugs and problems encountered at the first time.
Meanwhile, welcome to submit issues to propose what functions you want to add to this tool and I will implement them when possible.
There are two ways to install this library:
-
- Install via pip:
pip3 install commandline_config
If already installed, you can upgrade it by the following command:
pip3 install commandline_config --upgrade
-
- Import the commandline_config.py file directly from the
/commandline_config
folder of the github project into your own project directory, you need to install the dependency packageprettytable
:
pip3 install prettytable
Or install via
requirements.txt
:pip3 install -r requirements.txt
- Import the commandline_config.py file directly from the
-
- Import library:
fromcommandline_configimportConfig
-
- Set the parameter name and initial value in JSON/Python Dict format, and add the parameter description by
#
comment. Currently supports nesting a dict inside another dict, andcan nest unlimited layers.
preset_config={ "index":1,# Index of party "dataset":"mnist", 'lr':0.01,# learning rate 'normalization':True, "pair":(1,2), "multi_information":[1,0.5,'test',"TEST"],# list "dbinfo":{ "username":"NUS", "password":123456, "retry_interval_time":5.5, "save_password":False, "pair":("test",3), "multi":{ "test":0.01, }, "certificate_info":["1",2,[3.5]], } }
That is, the initial configuration of the program is generated. Each key defined in
preset_config
dict is the parameter name and each value is the initial value of the parameter, and at the same time, the initial value type of the parameter is automatically detected according to the type of the set value.The above configuration contains seven parameters:
index, dataset, batch, normalization, pair, multi_information and dbinfo
,where the type of the parameterindexis automatically detected asint,the default value is1and the description is "Index of party".Similarly, The type and default value of the second to fifth parameter are string:
"mnist"; float:0.01; bool:True; tuple:(1,2); list:[1,0.5,'test', "TEST" ]
.The seventh parameter is a nested dictionary of type dict, which also contains 7 parameters, with the same type and default values as the first 7 parameters, and will not be repeated here.
- Set the parameter name and initial value in JSON/Python Dict format, and add the parameter description by
-
- Create a configuration class object by passing
preset_config
dict toConfig
in any function you want.
if__name__=='__main__': config=Config(preset_config) # Or give the configuration a name: config_with_name=Config(preset_config,name="Federated Learning Experiments") # Or you can store the preset_config in local file configuration.json and pass the filename to the Config class. config_from_file=Config("configuration.json")
This means that the configuration object is successfully generated.
- Create a configuration class object by passing
-
- Configuration of parameters can be printed directly via
print
function:
print(config_with_name)
The output results are:
Configurations of Federated Learning Experiments: +-------------------+-------+--------------------------+ | Key | Type | Value | +-------------------+-------+--------------------------+ | index | int | 1 | | dataset | str | mnist | | lr | float | 0.01 | | normalization | bool | True | | pair | tuple | (1, 2) | | multi_information | list | [1, 0.5, 'test', 'TEST'] | | dbinfo | dict | See sub table below | +-------------------+-------+--------------------------+ Configurations of dict dbinfo: +---------------------+-------+---------------------+ | Key | Type | Value | +---------------------+-------+---------------------+ | username | str | NUS | | password | int | 123456 | | retry_interval_time | float | 5.5 | | save_password | bool | False | | pair | tuple | ('test', 3) | | multi | dict | See sub table below | | certificate_info | list | ['1', 2, [3.5]] | +---------------------+-------+---------------------+ Configurations of dict multi: +------+-------+-------+ | Key | Type | Value | +------+-------+-------+ | test | float | 0.01 | +------+-------+-------+
Here the information of all parameters will be printed in table format. If you want to change the printing style, you can modify it by
config_with_name.set_print_style(style='')
.The values that can be taken forstyle
are:both
,table
,json
which means print both table and json at the same time, print only table, and json dictionary only.E.g.:
# Only print json config_with_name.set_print_style('json') print(config_with_name) print("----------") # Print table and json at the same time config_with_name.set_print_style('table') print(config_with_name)
The output results are:
Configurations of Federated Learning Experiments: {'index': 1, 'dataset': 'mnist', 'lr': 0.01, 'normalization': True, 'pair': (1, 2), 'multi_information': [1, 0.5, 'test', 'TEST'], 'dbinfo': 'See below'} Configurations of dict dbinfo: {'username': 'NUS', 'password': 123456, 'retry_interval_time': 5.5, 'save_password': False, 'pair': ('test', 3), 'multi': 'See below', 'certificate_info': ['1', 2, [3.5]]} Configurations of dict multi: {'test': 0.01} ---------- Configurations of Federated Learning Experiments: +-------------------+-------+--------------------------+ | Key | Type | Value | +-------------------+-------+--------------------------+ | index | int | 1 | | dataset | str | mnist | | lr | float | 0.01 | | normalization | bool | True | | pair | tuple | (1, 2) | | multi_information | list | [1, 0.5, 'test', 'TEST'] | | dbinfo | dict | See sub table below | +-------------------+-------+--------------------------+ {'index': 1, 'dataset': 'mnist', 'lr': 0.01, 'normalization': True, 'pair': (1, 2), 'multi_information': [1, 0.5, 'test', 'TEST'], 'dbinfo': 'See below'} Configurations of dict dbinfo: +---------------------+-------+---------------------+ | Key | Type | Value | +---------------------+-------+---------------------+ | username | str | NUS | | password | int | 123456 | | retry_interval_time | float | 5.5 | | save_password | bool | False | | pair | tuple | ('test', 3) | | multi | dict | See sub table below | | certificate_info | list | ['1', 2, [3.5]] | +---------------------+-------+---------------------+ {'username': 'NUS', 'password': 123456, 'retry_interval_time': 5.5, 'save_password': False, 'pair': ('test', 3), 'multi': 'See below', 'certificate_info': ['1', 2, [3.5]]} Configurations of dict multi: +------+-------+-------+ | Key | Type | Value | +------+-------+-------+ | test | float | 0.01 | +------+-------+-------+ {'test': 0.01}
- Configuration of parameters can be printed directly via
Configuration parameter values can be written in three ways.
-
- To receive command line arguments, simply pass
--index 1
on the command line to modify the value ofindex
to1
.Also, the considerations for passing values to different types of arguments are:
- When passing bool type, you can use
0
orFalse
forFalse,1
orTrue
orno value after the parameter
forTrue:--normalization 1
or--normalization True
or--normalization
all can set the value of parameternormalization
in the configuration toTrue. - When passing list type, empty array and multi-dimensional arrays can be passed.
- To modify the value in the nested dict, please use
--nested-parameter-name.sub-parameter-name.sub-parameter-name.….sub-parameter-name value
to modify the value in the nested object, such as--dbinfo.password 987654
to change the value of thepassword
parameter in thedbinfo
subobject to987654
;--dbinfo.multi.test 1
to change the value of thetest
parameter in themulti
dict which is indbinfo
subobject to ```. Currently this tool can supports unlimited layers/levels of nesting. - Note thatthe argument index must be in the
preset_config
object defined above:
Pythontest.py--dbinfo.password987654--dbinfo.multi.test1--index0--datasetemnist--normalization0--multi_information[\'sdf\',1,\ "3.3\ ",,True,[1,[]]]
- To receive command line arguments, simply pass
-
- Use
config.index = 2
directly in the code to change the value of the parameterindex
to2
.Again, list type parameters can be assigned as empty or multidimensional arrays. For nested objects, you can useconfig.dbinfo.save_password=True
to modify the value of thesave_password
parameter in sub dictdbinfo
toTrue
.
- Use
-
- Way 1 and 2 will trigger type checking, that is, if the type of the assigned value and the type of the default value in the predefined dict
preset_config
does not match, the program will report an error, therefore, if you do not want to force type checking, you can useconfig[ "index" ] = "sdf"
to force the value of the parameter index to the stringsdf
(not recommended, it will cause unexpected impact).
- Way 1 and 2 will trigger type checking, that is, if the type of the assigned value and the type of the default value in the predefined dict
Read the value of the parameterdataset
directly by means ofconfig.dataset
orconfig[ "dataset" ]
.
print(config.dataset,config["index"])
The value of an argumenta
will be read by this order: the last value modified byconfig.a = *
> the value of--a 2
specified by the command line > the initial value specified by"a":1
defined by preset_config.
For the list type, if a multidimensional array is passed, the information can be read via standard slice of Python:
config.dbinfo.certificate_info=[1,[],[[2]]]
print(config.dbinfo.certificate_info[2][0][0])
For parameters in a single nested object, there are four ways to read the values of the parameters, all of which can be read successfully:
print(config.dbinfo.username)
print(config[ "dbinfo" ].password)
print(config.dbinfo[ "retry_interval_time" ])
print(config[ "dbinfo" ][ "save_password" ])
Simply pass the above config object as a parameter to the function and call it:
defprint_dataset_name(c):
print(c.dataset,c["dataset"],c.dbinfo.certificate_info)
print_dataset_name(c=config)
A deep copy of the configuration object can be made by thedeepcopy
method:
fromcopyimportdeepcopy
copy_config=deepcopy(config)
# Modify new configuration's parameter value, will not affect the orignal configuration
copy_config.index=15
The entire parameter configuration can be stored to a local file or uploaded to a remote server such as mongodb, simply byconfig.save()
storing the configuration as aconfig name (or config if there is no name).json
file in the directory, or you can specify the file name and path as follows:
config.save("config/test_config.json")
Then we successfully save the configuration to the localconfiguration.json
file inside theconfig
folder. The file content is as follows:
{
"index":1,
"dataset":"mnist",
"lr":0.01,
"normalization":true,
"pair":[1,2],
"multi_information":[1,0.5,"test","TEST"],
"dbinfo":{
"username":"NUS",
"password":123456,
"retry_interval_time":5.5,
"save_password":false,
"pair":["test",3],
"multi":{"test":0.01},
"certificate_info":["1",2,[3.5]]
}
}
To store it into the database such asmongodb
,you need to get the json sequence first corresponding to the parameters with theinfo = config.get_config()
command, and serialize it with thejson
library.
For example, to store theconfig_with_name
configuration tomongodb
:
importpymongo
myclient=pymongo.MongoClient('mongodb://username:example:27017/',connect=False)
mydb=myclient['exps']
table=mydb["table"]
# Get the configurations
configuration=config.get_config()
# Insert configuration dict into mongodb table
table.insert_one(configuration)
# Or make configuration as part of a bigger dict
all_info={
"exp_time":"20220925",
"configuration":configuration
}
table.insert_one(all_info)
Note that tuples are not supported by JSON, so whether stored locally or in a database, tuple arguments will be converted to lists.
Set advanced options, such as enumerating Enum types, by passing theoptions
parameter of theConfig
argument to theConfig
class.
option={}
config=Config(preset_config,options=option)
If you want to limit the value of a parameter to a certain range, you can do so by configuring:
advanced_options={
'lr':{
"enum":[0.001,15.5,0.01,0.1]# restrict the lr value to one of 0.001, 15.5, 0.01, 0.1
},
'index':{
"enum":[1,2,3]# Restrict the index value to 1, 2 and 3
},
"dbinfo":{
"username":{
"enum":["XDU","ZJU","NUS"]# restrict the dbinfo.username field to XDU, ZJU and NUS
},
"multi":{
"test":{
"enum":[1,0.1,0.01,15]# 3 layers nested
}
}
},
}
config=Config(preset_config,options=advanced_options)
If enum is set, the following three ways to set a parameter to a value other than the qualified/speficied value will all report an error.
-
- The initial value of
index
is set to a value other than1,2,3
inpreset_config
:
preset_config={ "index":4, }
- The initial value of
-
- The command line passes unqualified/unspecified values for the
lr
argument
Python example.py --lr 0.02
- The command line passes unqualified/unspecified values for the
-
- The code changes the value of
dbinfo.username
to a value other thanXDU, ZJU and NUS
.
config.dbinfo.username="UEST"
The output are:
AttributeError: Can notsetvalue 4 because the key'index'hassetenum list and you the value 4 is notinthe enum list [1, 2, 3]! AttributeError: Can notsetvalue 0.02 because the key'lr'hassetenum list and you the value 0.02 is notinthe enum list [0.001, 15.5, 0.01, 0.1]! AttributeError: Can notsetvalue nus because the key'username'hassetenum list and you the value nus is notinthe enum list ['XDU','ZJU','NUS']!
- The code changes the value of
Set the parameter description helpers by specifying thehelpers
parameter in theConfig
class.
helpers={
"index":"index of information",
"dbinfo_help":"information dict for database",
"dbinfo":{
"username":"username for database",
"multi":{
"test":"test information"
}
}
}
config=Config(preset_config,helpers=helpers)
Note that since thedbinfo
parameter is adict
,if you want to set the parameter description fordbinfo
,you need to set adbinfo_help
parameter to write the description in thehelpers
dictionary, i.e. add_help
after the dict parameter name to set the parameter description for the dict field.
Two ways to print parameter descriptions, by passing-h
or-help
on the command line, or by calling thehelp()
function in code.
config_with_name.help()
or
Python example.py -h
#OR
Python example.py -help
Note that it is only one short slash-
and no other command line arguments be added to get help instructions, and the output of both methods is:
Parameter helps for Federated Learning Experiments:
+-------------------+-------+-------------------------------+
| Key | Type | Comments |
+-------------------+-------+-------------------------------+
| index | int | index of information |
| dataset | str | - |
| lr | float | - |
| normalization | bool | - |
| pair | tuple | - |
| multi_information | list | - |
| dbinfo | dict | information dict for database |
+-------------------+-------+-------------------------------+
Parameter helps for dict dbinfo:
+---------------------+-------+-----------------------+
| Key | Type | Comments |
+---------------------+-------+-----------------------+
| username | str | username for database |
| password | int | - |
| retry_interval_time | float | - |
| save_password | bool | - |
| pair | tuple | - |
| multi | dict | Multiple Parameters |
| certificate_info | list | - |
+---------------------+-------+-----------------------+
Parameter helps for dict multi:
+------+-------+------------------+
| Key | Type | Comments |
+------+-------+------------------+
| test | float | test information |
+------+-------+------------------+
This library cannot read command line arguments at the same time with the argparse library, so please do not useargs = parser.parse_args()
to read command line arguments while using this library.
The type of the parameter will be automatically detected as the same type of the initial value set inpreset_config
,and the value of the command line parameter will be forced converted to the corresponding type value, such as the default value ofindex
in the abovepreset_config
dict is1
,then the type of the parameter index isint
with the initial value of1
.If you specify--index 15.5
on the command line, the parameterindex
will be automatically assigned to value15
,that is,15.5
will be automatically forced converted toint
type.
If the parameter value specified on the command line parameters can not be forcedly converted to specific type, it will report an error, such as if the command line specified--index sdf
,as sdf with orignal format ofstring
can not be converted toint
type, so it will report an error.
The list parameter needs to be assigned with a backslash before the string element quotes when passing by commandline
When the command line argument is set to the inputlist
type, if the element in the list is astring,
you must use add abackslash \
before eachsingle/double quote
to parse it correctly, otherwise the argument value will be treated as anint
orfloat
type. If there arespaces
in the command line they will be merged automatically (but the command line environment can not bezsh
,if it is zsh environment then must remove all the spaces inside the list,bash
andsh
does not have this problem, that is, in the zsh environment, you cannot add any space(s) between15
and\'12\'
in--a [15,\'12\']
).
If the parameters can be set as follows:
Python test.py --array [1,2.3,\'sdf\']
That can correctly resolve the array parameter whose value is alist
,and the content of[1,2.3,'sdf', "qwe" ]
,that is, a list containing int, float, string type of data simultaneously.
Quotes are required for command-line assignment of tuple parameters, and string elements must be preceded by a backslash
When the command line parameter is set to the inputtuple
type, the specified tuple type value must be enclosed inquotes
;and if the element in the tuple is astring
,abackslash
must be added before each single/double quote\
for proper parsing, otherwise the parameter value will be treated as anint
orfloat
type. Similarly, if there arespaces
in the command line they will be merged automatically (but the command line environment cannot bezsh
,if it is zsh environment then all internal spaces must be removed, bash and sh do not have this problem).
For example, the parameter can be set to
Python test.py --pair "(1,2,\'msg\')"
The value of the pair parameter is a tuple of type(1,2, "msg" )
,i.e. a tuple of typeint
,float
,string
.
If the parameter name contains special characters such as-+.
orspace
orother Python reserved characters
,you must use themiddle bracket []
to read and write the parameter value instead of.E.g., if the parameter name ismulti-information
,it can only be accessed byconfig[ "multi-information" ]
,cannot doconfig.multi-information
,because the minussign -
is a Python language's reserved symbol.
Now the tool can support unlimited layers of nesting, other supported parameter types are:int, float, string, bool, tuple and list
.
The name of the parameter passed on the command linemust be defined inpreset_config
in advance, otherwise an error will be reported,e.g.
Pythontest.py--arg11
Since the parameter namearg1
is not defined inpreset_config
dict, an error is reported indicating that thearg1
parameter is not defined. This function is set to perform parameter integrity checking to avoid entering incorrect parameter names through the command line.
Ifzsh: no matches found
occurs when passing list arguments in the zsh Shell environment, please add a linesetopt no_nomatch
at the end of the~/.zshrc
file, after save it then runsource ~/.zshrc
on the command line to refresh zsh, then the problem will be solved.
An example will be given below to demonstrate the convenience of this tool compared to theargparse
tool.
The code that needs to be written using theargparse
tool:
parser=argparse.ArgumentParser(description='PyTorch local error training')
parser.add_argument('--model',default='vgg8b',
help='model, mlp, vgg13, vgg16, vgg19, vgg8b, vgg11b, resnet18, resnet34, wresnet28-10 and more (default: vgg8b)')
parser.add_argument('--dataset',default='CIFAR10',
help='dataset, MNIST, KuzushijiMNIST, FashionMNIST, CIFAR10, CIFAR100, SVHN, STL10 or ImageNet (default: CIFAR10)')
parser.add_argument('--batch-size',type=int,default=128,
help='input batch size for training (default: 128)')
parser.add_argument('--num-layers',type=int,default=1,
help='number of hidden fully-connected layers for mlp and vgg models (default: 1')
parser.add_argument('--lr',type=float,default=5e-4,
help='initial learning rate (default: 5e-4)')
parser.add_argument('--lr-decay-milestones',nargs='+',type=int,default=[200,300,350,375],
help='decay learning rate at these milestone epochs (default: [200,300,350,375])')
parser.add_argument('--optim',default='adam',
help='optimizer, adam, amsgrad or sgd (default: adam)')
parser.add_argument('--beta',type=float,default=0.99,
help='fraction of similarity matching loss in predsim loss (default: 0.99)')
args=parser.parse_args()
args.cuda=notargs.no_cudaandtorch.cuda.is_available()
ifargs.cuda:
cudnn.enabled=True
cudnn.benchmark=True
Code to be written after conversion with this tool:
'''
:param model: model, mlp, vgg13, vgg16, vgg19, vgg8b, vgg11b, resnet18, resnet34, wresnet28-10 and more (default: vgg8b)
:param dataset: dataset, MNIST, KuzushijiMNIST, FashionMNIST, CIFAR10, CIFAR100, SVHN, STL10 or ImageNet (default: CIFAR10)
:param batch-size: input batch size for training (default: 128)
:param num-layers: number of hidden fully-connected layers for mlp and vgg models (default: 1)
:param lr: initial learning rate (default: 5e-4)
:param lr-decay-milestones: decay learning rate at these milestone epochs (default: [200,300,350,375])
:param optim: optimizer, adam, amsgrad or sgd (default: adam)
:param beta: fraction of similarity matching loss in predsim loss (default: 0.99)
'''
config={
'model':'vgg8b',
'dataset':'CIFAR10',
'batch-size':128,
'num-layers':1,
'lr':5e-4,
'lr-decay-milestones':[200,300,350,375],
'optim':'adam',
'beta':0.99,
}
args=Config(config,name='PyTorch local error training')
args.cuda=notargs.no_cudaandtorch.cuda.is_available()
ifargs.cuda:
cudnn.enabled=True
cudnn.benchmark=True
As we can see, the amount of code has been reduced and is more structured and neat.
Another case with library click:
importclick
@click.command()
@click.option('--count',default=1,help='Number of greetings.')
@click.option('--name',prompt='Your name',
help='The person to greet.')
defhello(count,name):
"""Simple program that greets NAME for a total of COUNT times." ""
forxinrange(count):
click.echo(f "Hello{name}!")
if__name__=='__main__':
hello()
Can be converted to the following code:
fromcommandline_configimportConfig
defhello(o):
"""Simple program that greets NAME for a total of COUNT times." ""
forxinrange(o.count):
print(f "Hello{o.name}!")
if__name__=='__main__':
args={
"count":1,# Number of greetings.
"name":"",# The person to greet.
}
options=Config(args)
hello(options)
You can runexample.py
in the Github project to test the whole tool, most functions's codes had been provided inside the file:
# Get help for all parameters of example.py
Python example.py -h
# Specify parameter values
Python example.py --dbinfo.multi.test 0.01 --dbinfo.username NUS
The following describes the author's personal reasons for developing and the benefits/conveniences of this package.
For us who often run research experiments, do you often need to set a lot of command line arguments at the beginning of a Python file and call them in the following code asargs.*
:
For example, the following example paragraph:
parser=argparse.ArgumentParser(description='index')
parser.add_argument('--index',default=0,type=int,help='party index')
parser.add_argument('--party_num',default=100,type=int)
args=parser.parse_args()
print(args.index)
With one more additional parameter, we need to write one line ofparser.add_argument(...)
,when handwriting configuration of each parameter, it will be very tedious such as the name needs to add --, and modify the default value, type and description of the time is very troublesome, finally will lead to very long code and inconvenient to maintain.
Even if you use a more advanced libraryclick
,you still need to write option constantly, and you need to write the same amount of parameters at the input parameter field of the function to match all the option, writing code is really tedious, such as the following Click code:
importclick
fromcaesar_encryptionimportencrypt
@click.command()
@click.argument('text',nargs=-1)
@click.option('--decrypt/--encrypt','-d/-e')
@click.option('--key','-k',default=1)
defcaesar(text,decrypt,key):
text_string=' '.join(text)
ifdecrypt:
key=-key
cyphertext=encrypt(text_string,key)
click.echo(cyphertext)
if__name__=='__main__':
caesar()
I don't want to specify option over and over again when writing code, and write a lot of corresponding parameters in the function name parameter field, which is very troublesome.
So would it make the code look more structured and clearer if the parameter configuration could be written in the format of Python objects/JSON?
Also, is it possible to directly read and write command line arguments as if they were Python objects, or deep copy them, as if no command line arguments had been configured?
Most importantly, can we make the process of writing code faster, instead of adding a little bit of configuration line by line?
In order to solve the above pain points, this tool has been developed.
My goal is to make it easier for us to write more concise codes that works as the same as verbose command line parsing packages like Argparse or Click, while also making the configuration look structured and easy to maintain. Json was chosen because the Python dictionary type Dict is native in JSON format, so can make the same format as Python code. In this way, the configuration information can be directly embedded in the Python code file (anywhere), without the need to establish a separate configuration file such as TOML. At the same time, you can use the library to write the configuration at any position within the code file to read the command line parameters and modify the value of each field at any time.
Similar tools including:
Name | Advantage | Disadvantage |
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Fire | Can direct do conversion of function parameters to command line parameters | Cannot pass parameters to other functions. |
hydra | Easy to read and write to yaml | Need additional yaml file with specifed path, also cannot perform integrity check and type conversion/check, not friendly for printing |
ml_collections | Similar functionality to this tool with more configurable items | A little tideous to pass commandline parameters, when nesting need to artificially set specifed Class, and also without integrity check, not friendly for printing |
Welcome to submit issues to propose what functions you want to add to this tool and I will implement them when possible.
- Advanced options to support more advanced features such as commandline style (instead of use --, can change to - or +), etc.