6.2 The `aspen.configuration` object

The aspen.configuration object provides raw access to the parser objects used to configure your server, and a number of basic settings.

6.2.1 Parsers

The various parsers and raw settings are exposed as these members:

args: An argument list as returned by optparse.OptionParser.parse_args.

conf: An instance of aspen._configuration.ConfFile; see below.

optparser: An optparse.OptionParser instance.

opts: An optparse.Values instance per optparse.OptionParser.parse_args.

paths: An instance of aspen._configuration.Paths; see below.

6.2.2 Settings

Furthermore, aspen.configuration exposes specific configuration settings as these members:

address: A (hostname, port) tuple (for AF_INET and AF_INET6 address) or string (for AF_UNIX) giving the address to which Aspen is bound.

command: A string giving the command line argument (start, stop, etc.).

daemon: A boolean indicating whether Aspen is acting as a daemon.

defaults: A tuple listing the default resource names to look for in a directory.

sockfam: One of socket.AF_INET, socket.AF_INET6, and socket.AF_UNIX.

threads: A non-zero positive integer; the number of threads in the server's request-handling thread pool.

All members are intended to be read-only.

See Also:

ConfigParser: The naming is not PEP 8, but the documentation is fine.

optparse: On the other hand, the documentation for optparse is rather, um, convoluted. Good luck!

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