ConfigNamespace

class astropy.config.ConfigNamespace

Bases: object

A namespace of configuration items. Each subpackage with configuration items should define a subclass of this class, containing ConfigItem instances as members.

For example:

class Conf(_config.ConfigNamespace):
    unicode_output = _config.ConfigItem(
        False,
        'Use Unicode characters when outputting values, ...')
    use_color = _config.ConfigItem(
        sys.platform != 'win32',
        'When True, use ANSI color escape sequences when ...',
        aliases=['astropy.utils.console.USE_COLOR'])
conf = Conf()

Methods Summary

reload([attr])	Reload a configuration item from the configuration file.
reset([attr])	Reset a configuration item to its default.
set_temp(attr, value)	Temporarily set a configuration value.

Methods Documentation

reload(attr=None)

Reload a configuration item from the configuration file.

Parameters:

attr : str, optional

The name of the configuration parameter to reload. If not provided, reload all configuration parameters.

reset(attr=None)

Reset a configuration item to its default.

Parameters:

attr : str, optional

The name of the configuration parameter to reload. If not provided, reset all configuration parameters.

set_temp(attr, value)

Temporarily set a configuration value.

Parameters:

attr : str

Configuration item name

value : object

The value to set temporarily.

Examples

>>> import astropy
>>> with astropy.conf.set_temp('use_color', False):
...     pass
...     # console output will not contain color
>>> # console output contains color again...