pythonwise: Using module __dir__ and __getattr__ for configuration

PEP 562 added support for module level __dir__ and __getitem__. 

• __dir__ is called when the built-in dir function is called on the module
• __getattr__ is called when an attribute is not found via the regular attribute lookup

Let's use this to build an environment based configuration module. 

• Conviruation values has a value, environment key and a function to convert from str to right type
• I'm going to use dataclasses and populate values from environment in __post_init__
• Complex data types (such as list) should be JSON encoded in the environment variables
• All configuration values with start with the c_ prefix
• __dir__ will return a list configuration variables without the c_ prefix
• __getattr__ will add the c_ prefix and will look for the varialbes in globals

We're adding c_ prefix and removing it to bypass the regular attribute lookup mechanism. If we'll call a variable http_port and user will write config.http_port, our __dir__ function won't be called.

Here's the code

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