How to read different configuration file based on option - python & command line

Question

I have multiple configuration files and I want to read a different config file based on which option I type. For example if I type in the terminal

python test.py -60min

I want to read the python script to read the config file '/home/matt/config_60min.ini'

Similarly, python test.py -30min would read '/home/matt/config_30min.ini'

I'm not sure if this would be done using conditional logic within the script or with a simple option parser. Maybe there's a better way to go about it such as python test.py -f 60min

Thanks in advance.

Karl · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-27 19:34:13Z

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You could do it like this:

import sys
config_path = '/home/matt/config_{}.ini'.format(sys.argv[1])

and run the script using:

python test.py 60min

If it gets more complicated than this, consider using the argparse library

answered Dec 27, 2018 at 19:34

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