[Web-SIG] WSGI and Configuration

[Ian Bicking]

Has anyone thought about what configuration might look like in a WSGI 
context?  I'd like to set up some interface where configuration can be 
shared between frameworks.  It's also important to me that configuration 
can be local in some fashion, not process- or installation-wide.  For 
instance, override some configuration values for a specific URL hierarchy.

Maybe the most obvious way would be something like 
environ['config.dict'], which would be a two-level dictionary (sections 
and keys), reminiscent of a .ini file.  It might not be an actual 
dictionary, to more easily allow configurations to be layered and unlayered.

But that's not very sophisticated, so I'm curious if anyone has any 
thoughts?  I'm not too concerned with config file formats or anything; 
I'd like this to be neutral with respect to that (if that's possible, 
which I'm not sure), I'm mostly thinking about the API to the 
configuration at this point.

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Ian Bicking  /  ianb at colorstudy.com  /  http://blog.ianbicking.org