Easy peasy configurations

config-example.py

import os
import sys
import logging
import ConfigParser

def main(argv=None):
    if argv is None:
        argv = sys.argv

    logging.basicConfig(format='%(asctime)s %(name)-12s %(levelname)-8s %(message)s', level=logging.DEBUG)
    
    config_file = os.path.expanduser('~/.test-project-config')
    if not os.path.exists(config_file):
        logging.error('Configuration file ({}) does not exist'.format(config_file))
        return -1
    
    config = ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser()
    try:
        config.read(config_file)
        server = config.get('section', 'server')
        port = int(config.get('section', 'port'))
        is_prod = config.getboolean('section', 'live')
    except Exception, e:
        logging.error('Could not read configuration settings')
        logging.exception(e)
    
    # do stuff
    # ...
    
    return 0

if __name__ == '__main__':
    sys.exit(main())