using yaml configuration file for python

config.yml

database:
    username: admin
    password: foobar  # TODO get prod passwords out of config
    socket: /var/tmp/database.sock
    options: {use_utf8: true}
memcached:
    host: 10.0.0.99
workers:
  - host: 10.0.0.101
    port: 2301
  - host: 10.0.0.102
    port: 2302

load_config.py

import yaml
import pprint
config = yaml.safe_load(open('config.yml'))
pprint.pprint(config)

load_config.stdout

{'database': {'options': {'use_utf8': True},
              'password': 'foobar',
              'socket': '/var/tmp/database.sock',
              'username': 'admin'},
 'memcached': {'host': '10.0.0.99'},
 'workers': [{'host': '10.0.0.101', 'port': 2301},
             {'host': '10.0.0.102', 'port': 2302}]}