Error using multiple configs files from different folders, having a default file (not merged)

I need to read from multiple settings file and also a common setting file (aka defaults). To do so i’m setting the ENV variable to the two file paths

os.environ['SETTINGS_FILE_FOR_DYNACONF'] = '<abs_path>/config/default.toml, <abs_path>/config1/settings.toml'

default.toml

[development]
VAR_DFT = "default_dev"

[production]
VAR_DFT = "default_prod"

settings.toml

[development]
VAR1 = 'config1_dev'

[production]
VAR1 = 'config1_prod'

import os
from dynaconf import settings

from config  import __file__ as config_file
from config1 import __file__ as config1_file
from config2 import __file__ as config2_file

default = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(config_file), 'default-settings.toml')
f1 = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(config1_file), 'settings.toml')
f2 = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(config2_file), 'settings.toml')

print('using config 1')
os.environ['SETTINGS_FILE_FOR_DYNACONF'] = "{}, {}".format(default, f1)

print('development')
settings.setenv('development')
print(settings.VAR_DFT) #no error
print(settings.VAR1) #gives me error

print('changing to production')
settings.setenv('production')
print(settings.VAR1)

print('----')

print('using config 2')
os.environ['SETTINGS_FILE_FOR_DYNACONF'] = "{},{}".format(default, f2)

print('development')
settings.setenv('development')
print(settings.VAR1)

print('changing to production')
settings.setenv('production')
print(settings.VAR1)

It gives me error AttributeError: 'Settings' object has no attribute 'VAR1' trying to access VAR1… so the more specific setting and not the default… It seems like it’s not merging the two configurations.

Is it possibile, am i totally on the wrong path?

[fabiosoft]

Very good example! From your comment it wasn’t so clear, but the code seems to accomplish my needs! As always you made an excellent tool.

A bit tricky is only the INCLUDES env variable format, maybe a yaml format doesn’t need brackets and single quotes… but i don’t know.

os.environ["INCLUDES_FOR_DYNACONF"] = "['{}']".format(f1)  #"['config1/settings.toml']"

so probably a more python style reload/env/include would be useful… are you agree?

[rochacbruno]

@fabiosoft you are right about the formatting, that is useful to environment variables complex lists but not for simple values.

I pushed the changes in #183

• Now you can pass only the string filename as path/to/path.toml or separate it by ; or ,
• You can still pass a toml-like list
• You can use programmatically calling settings.load_file(path="/path/to/file.toml")