config.ConfigItem

config.ConfigItem

A setting and associated value stored in a configuration file.

These objects should be created as members of ConfigNamespace subclasses, for example:

class _Conf(config.ConfigNamespace):
    unicode_output = config.ConfigItem(
        False,
        'Use Unicode characters when outputting values, and writing widgets '
        'to the console.')
conf = _Conf()

Parameters:

defaultvalue : object, optional

The default value for this item. If this is a list of strings, this item will be interpreted as an ‘options’ value - this item must be one of those values, and the first in the list will be taken as the default value.

description : str or None, optional

A description of this item (will be shown as a comment in the configuration file)

cfgtype : str or None, optional

A type specifier like those used as the values of a particular key in a configspec file of configobj. If None, the type will be inferred from the default value.

module : str or None, optional

The full module name that this item is associated with. The first element (e.g. ‘astropy’ if this is ‘astropy.config.configuration’) will be used to determine the name of the configuration file, while the remaining items determine the section. If None, the package will be inferred from the package within whiich this object’s initializer is called.

aliases : str, or list of str, optional

The deprecated location(s) of this configuration item. If the config item is not found at the new location, it will be searched for at all of the old locations.

Raises:

RuntimeError

If module is None, but the module this item is created from cannot be determined.