Update config file?

[ideal2545]

Pretty new to python, I've been trying to read through the documentation, I am able to 'set' a parameter but that is only in runtime not actually updating the corresponding value in the yaml file, is there a relatively easy way to do this? I tried reading through the documentation and ran accross set_file but I havent had much luck.

[ideal2545]

For the record I can do this with just dumping and ovewriting the yaml with config.dump by opening the file, writing to it and then closing it, but I was wondering if there was a more elegant solution provided by confuse (which is awesome by the way)

[vbrozik]

I totally agree. The documentation is missing this important information:

• How do you update the configuration file?
• How do you select to which configuration file to write the changes? (As confuse should combine the configuration from multiple files.)

The example application is missing this functionality too.

[sampsyo]

Hello! I think the reason this is confusing is that this is not really a feature that Confuse has… it can format the "combined" configuration as a user-visible YAML file, but it doesn't have a direct facility to write this new configuration back to a file. So I have two thoughts:

• If anyone is already using Confuse in this way (taking its formatted YAML output and writing it back to a file manually), maybe they'd like to contribute an example of how to do that correctly?
• We could consider it a "feature request" to make this something we support as a first-class feature. But this would require some design effort… I don't think it's obvious how this functionality should work, and it would need careful thought before it's ready to implement.