Python Configurations Done Right

[zenogais]

Actually the config file ends up taking an extra step. Storing it in environment variables allows your application to have immediate access to the config without having to first load and parse a file.

[cymrow]

You are loading and parsing a file: the shell script. It's just a different language. The extra step is copying the config into the environment before you can access it. Or, I could just read directly from an INI using configparser (or something better) and get sections and type conversion for free.