Context

class processor_tools.context.Context(config: str | List[str] | dict | None = None, supercontext: List[Context | Tuple[Context, str]] | None = None, config_init: ConfigInit | None = None)

Class to determine and store processing state

Parameters:

config – processing configuration data, either:

• dictionary of configuration data

• path of configuration file or directory containing set of configuration files

• list of dicts/paths (earlier in the list overwrites later in the list)

Parameters:

supercontext – context supercontext or list of supercontexts (earlier in the list overwrites later in the list), configuration values of which override those defined in the context. Each defined as context object or tuple of:

• supercontext (Context) - supercontext object

• section (str) - name of section of supercontext to apply as supercontext

Parameters:

config_init – config initialiser for setting up default config files/directories to be loaded every time the class is initialised, as well as providing methods for generating config file/directory paths. See processor_tools.config.init_config.ConfigInit for more details.

For example:

supercontext = Context({"section": {"val1": 1 , "val2", 2}})
(supercontext, "section")

Methods

__init__
get	Get config value if defined, else return default
get_config_names	Get available config value names
keys	Get available config value names
set	Sets config data
update	Update config values
update_from_file	Update config values from file
write_config	Write config values to file

Attributes

config_values	Returns defined configuration values
default_config
supercontext	Return context supercontexts