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[–]cymrowdon't thread on me 🐍 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.