def get()

in clay/config.py [0:0]

• 14 lines of code
• 3 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    def get(self, key, default=None):
        '''
        Get the configuration for a specific variable, using dots as
        delimiters for nested objects. Example: config.get('api.host') returns
        the value of self.config['api']['host'] or None if any of those keys
        does not exist. The default return value can be overridden.
        '''
        value = self.config
        for k in key.split('.'):
            try:
                value = value[k]
            except KeyError:
                return default
        #sys.stderr.write('config: %s=%r\n' % (key, value))
        return value