confection

✨ Fixes and features

• Fixes #47: Ensure config with * can be filled (#53)
• Allow typing-extensions<5.0.0 for Python < 3.8 (#63)
• Update CI (#64)

👥 Contributors

@adrianeboyd, @honnibal, @ines, @KennethEnevoldsen, @MartinBernstorff, @svlandeg

• Support use of $$ to escape a literal $ character in config strings (#49).

• Add frozen structures to __init__.__all__ to ensure they can be imported easily from confection (#43).

• Implement deepcopy() for FrozenDict and FrozenList to allow setting values in function headers (#41)

• Make catalogue a dev-only requirement (#35).
• Allow Pydantic v2 using transitional v1 support (#38).
• Format and lint with black/flake8/isort (#39).

• Add checks with warnings for single-quoted values (#22).
• Add util.SimpleFrozenDict and util.SimpleFrozenList from spaCy (#28).
• Remove recursive JSON parsing of list values to preserve string values such as ["003"] rather than parsing them as integers (#33).

• Extend support for typing_extensions to v4.4.x for Python 3.6 and 3.7.
• Add pyproject.toml to source package.

• Extend support to pydantic v1.10.x.

• Add py.typed to package.
• Switch to mypy 0.981 for fixes related to Python 3.10.7 and NumPy.
• Update README.

This is the initial release of confection, a lightweight library that offers a configuration system letting you conveniently describe arbitrary trees of objects.

If you are a user of spaCy or Thinc, you may be familiar with this configuration system already - now you can use it independently.