databroker.lookup_config

databroker.lookup_config(name)[source]

Search for a databroker configuration file with a given name.

For exmaple, the name ‘example’ will cause the function to search for:

  • ~/.config/databroker/example.yml

  • {python}/../etc/databroker/example.yml

  • /etc/databroker/example.yml

where {python} is the location of the current Python binary, as reported by sys.executable. It will use the first match it finds.

Parameters
namestring
Returns
configdict