8.4.5. pymodaq_utils.config module

exception pymodaq_utils.config.ConfigError

Bases: Exception

class pymodaq_utils.config.BaseConfig

Bases: object

Base class to manage configuration files

Should be subclassed with proper class attributes for each configuration file you need with pymodaq

config_name

The name with which the configuration will be saved

Type:

str

config_template_path

The Path of the template from which the config is constructed

Type:

Path

Attributes:

config_name

config_path

Get the user config path

config_template_path

system_config_path

Get the system_wide config path

Methods

__call__(*args)
dict_to_add_to_user()	To subclass
get_children(*path)	Get the list of config entries at a given path within the configulation toml file
load_config(config_file_name, template_path)	Load a configuration file from both system-wide and user file
save()	Save the current Config object into the user toml file

get
to_dict

dict_to_add_to_user()

To subclass

get(key, default=None)

get_children(*path)

Get the list of config entries at a given path within the configulation toml file

new in 4.3.0

load_config(config_file_name, template_path)

Load a configuration file from both system-wide and user file

check also if missing entries in the configuration file compared to the template

save()

Save the current Config object into the user toml file

to_dict()

abstract property config_name

property config_path

Get the user config path

abstract property config_template_path

property system_config_path

Get the system_wide config path

class pymodaq_utils.config.Config

Bases: BaseConfig

Main class to deal with configuration values for PyMoDAQ

Methods

__call__(*args)	Patch in case of a mixup of configs from different version of pymodaq: v5.1 and v5.2
dict_to_add_to_user()	To subclass

dict_to_add_to_user()

To subclass

config_name: str = 'config_pymodaq_utils'

config_template_path: Path = PosixPath('/home/docs/checkouts/readthedocs.org/user_builds/pymodaq/checkouts/5.1.x/packages/pymodaq_utils/src/pymodaq_utils/resources/config_template.toml')

pymodaq_utils.config.check_config(config_base, config_local)

Compare two configuration dictionaries. Adding missing keys

Parameters:

• config_base (dict) – The base dictionaries with possible new keys

• config_local (dict) – a dict from a local config file potentially missing keys

Returns:

bool

Return type:

True if keys where missing else False

pymodaq_utils.config.copy_template_config(config_file_name='config', source_path=None, dest_path=None)

Get a toml file path and copy it

the destination is made of a given folder path (or the system-wide local path by default) and the config_file_name appended by the suffix ‘.toml’

The source file (or pymodaq config template path by default) is read and dumped in this destination file

Parameters:

• config_file_name (str) – the name of the destination config file

• source_path (Union[Path, str]) – the path of the toml source to be copied

• dest_path (Union[Path, str]) – the destination path of the copied config

Returns:

Path

Return type:

the path of the copied file

pymodaq_utils.config.create_toml_from_dict(mydict, dest_path)

Create a Toml file at a given path from a dictionnary

pymodaq_utils.config.deep_update(mapping, *updating_mappings)

Make sure a dictionary is updated using another dict in any nested level Taken from Pydantic v1

Return type:

Dict[TypeVar(KeyType), Any]

pymodaq_utils.config.get_config_file(config_file_name, user=False)

pymodaq_utils.config.get_set_config_dir(config_name='config', user=False)

Creates a folder in the local config directory to store specific configuration files

Parameters:

• config_name ((str) name of the configuration folder)

• user (bool) – if False get the system-wide folder, otherwise the user folder

Return type:

Path

See also

get_set_local_dir

pymodaq_utils.config.get_set_local_dir(user=False)

Defines, creates and returns a local folder where configuration files will be saved

Depending on the os the configurations files will be stored in CONFIG_BASE_PATH, then each user will have another one created that could override the default and system-wide base folder

Parameters:

user (bool) – if False get the system-wide folder, otherwise the user folder

Returns:

Path

Return type:

Path

pymodaq_utils.config.get_set_log_path()

creates and return the config folder path for log files

pymodaq_utils.config.get_set_path(a_base_path, dir_name)

Return type:

Path

pymodaq_utils.config.getitem_recursive(dic, *args, ndepth=0, create_if_missing=False)

Will scan recursively a dictionary in order to get the item defined by the iterable args

Parameters:

• dic (dict) – the dictionary to scan

• args (an iterable of str) – keys of the dict

• ndepth (int) – by default (0) get the last element defined by args. 1 would mean it get the parent dict, 2 the parent of the parent…

• create_if_missing (bool) – if the entry is not present, create it assigning the ‘none’ default value (as a lower case string)

Return type:

object or dict

pymodaq_utils.config.load_system_config_and_update_from_user(config_file_name)

load from a system-wide config file, update it from the user config file

Parameters:

config_file_name (str) – The config file to be loaded

Returns:

dict

Return type:

contains the toml system-wide file update with the user file

pymodaq_utils.config.recursive_iterable_flattening(aniterable)

pymodaq_utils.config.replace_file_extension(filename, ext)

Replace the extension of a file by the specified one, without the dot

pymodaq_utils.config.replace_item_in_list(items, item_to_check, item_to_replace)