# YAML config file with environment variables

```python
import os
import re
import yaml


def parse_config(path=None, data=None, tag='!ENV'):
    """
    Load a yaml configuration file and resolve any environment variables
    The environment variables must have !ENV before them and be in this format
    to be parsed: ${VAR_NAME}.
    E.g.:
    database:
        host: !ENV ${HOST}
        port: !ENV ${PORT}
    app:
        log_path: !ENV '/var/${LOG_PATH}'
        something_else: !ENV '${AWESOME_ENV_VAR}/var/${A_SECOND_AWESOME_VAR}'
    :param str path: the path to the yaml file
    :param str data: the yaml data itself as a stream
    :param str tag: the tag to look for
    :return: the dict configuration
    :rtype: dict[str, T]
    """
    # pattern for global vars: look for ${word}
    pattern = re.compile('.*?\${(\w+)}.*?')
    loader = yaml.SafeLoader

    # the tag will be used to mark where to start searching for the pattern
    # e.g. somekey: !ENV somestring${MYENVVAR}blah blah blah
    loader.add_implicit_resolver(tag, pattern, None)

    def constructor_env_variables(loader, node):
        """
        Extracts the environment variable from the node's value
        :param yaml.Loader loader: the yaml loader
        :param node: the current node in the yaml
        :return: the parsed string that contains the value of the environment
        variable
        """
        value = loader.construct_scalar(node)
        match = pattern.findall(value)  # to find all env variables in line
        if match:
            full_value = value
            for g in match:
                full_value = full_value.replace(
                    f'${{{g}}}', os.environ.get(g, g)
                )
            return full_value
        return value

    loader.add_constructor(tag, constructor_env_variables)

    if path:
        with open(path) as conf_data:
            return yaml.load(conf_data, Loader=loader)
    elif data:
        return yaml.load(data, Loader=loader)
    else:
        raise ValueError('Either a path or data should be defined as input')
```

Example of a YAML configuration with environment variables:

{% code title="config.yaml" %}

```yaml
database:
 name: database_name
 user: !ENV ${DB_USER}
 password: !ENV ${DB_PASS}
 host: !ENV ${DB_HOST}
 port: 5432ws:
 user: !ENV ${WS_USER}
 password: !ENV ${WS_PASS}
 host: !ENV ‘https://${CURR_ENV}.ws.com.local'
```

{% endcode %}

## Usage

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Read from file" %}

```python
CONFIG = parse_config(path='config.yaml')
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Read from string" %}

```python
content = """
 database:
  name: database_name
  user: !ENV ${DB_USER}
  password: !ENV ${DB_PASS}
"""
CONFIG = parse_config(data=content)
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}


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