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Parameters as Recorded Configuration Rather Than Edited Code

The outcome requires re-derivation from recorded inputs, code and environment -- and parameters are the input most often lost, because they live inside the code they configure. This is also what makes running the same workflow many times over different settings on rented compute tractable rather than a directory of near-duplicate scripts.

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Reading Section Values from INI Config Files with Python configparser

Externalized configuration is the principle that values which vary independently of program logic — deployment targets, credentials, connection parameters — belong in a separate data file rather than…