Config Setup

Configuring CsvPaths is easy. The first step is adding it to your project using your Python dependency management tool of choice. Then create a simple test harness file and run it.

from csvpath import CsvPath
path = CsvPath()

CsvPath will create a config directory. The config directory will have the default config.ini file. The default config file has sensible defaults.

If you want to move your config to another location, simply add the other location to the default config file as path.

Once you do that, you can clear out any other configuration values. Or you can leave them. Either is fine.

When you start CsvPath it will check to see if it should load your config from another location. It will find the location in an env variable or in the path key in the default config.ini.

The Defaults

When you start a new CsvPath project in an empty directory, the first time you run a CsvPaths or CsvPath instance Config will create default assets for you:

• The config directory and a default config.ini

• An empty log directory

• An empty cache directory

• And, when you use a CsvPaths instance, an archive directory to hold serialized results

The log directory will be empty until your first run. The cache directory will be empty until your first CsvPaths instance run. CsvPath does not cache.