Reading yaml configurations in Python

I prefer to read configurations in python using yaml file when I have to specify multiple interrelated configurations in one file.

So how to go around it: all you need to do is bucket these configurations under different headers.

Consider the following request_conf.yaml configuration file:

---
- server:
    username: 'ram'
    url: 'http://localhost:3000/'
- execution:
    timeout: 60 #seconds

And here is how to read these configurations in a python file:

import yaml
def load_conf_file(config_file):
   with open(config_file, "r") as f:
       config = yaml.safe_load(f)
       server_conf = config[0]["server"]
       exec_conf = config[1]["execution"]
   return server_conf, exec_conf
server_conf,exec_conf = load_conf_file("<path to config file>")
username=server_conf["username"]
url=server_conf["url"]
timeout=exec_conf["timeout"]

That’s it!

Happy reading!