pydantic-settings-export

Export your Pydantic settings to Markdown and .env.example files!

This package provides a way to use pydantic (and pydantic-settings) models to generate a Markdown file with the settings and their descriptions, and a .env.example file with the settings and their default values.

Installation

pip install pydantic-settings-export
# or
pipx install pydantic-settings-export  # for a global installation and using as a CLI
# or
uv tool install pydantic-settings-export

Usage

You can see the usage examples of this package in the ./docs/Configuration.md and .env.example.

As code

from pydantic import BaseSettings
from pydantic_settings_export import Exporter, MarkdownSettings, Settings as PSESettings


class Settings(BaseSettings):
  my_setting: str = "default value"
  another_setting: int = 42


# Export the settings to a Markdown file `docs/Configuration.md` and `.env.example` file
Exporter(
  PSESettings(
    markdown=MarkdownSettings(
      save_dirs=["docs"],
    ),
  ),
).run_all(Settings)

As CLI

pydantic-settings-export --help

Configuration

You can add a pydantic_settings_export section to your pyproject.toml file to configure the exporter.

[tool.pydantic_settings_export]
project_dir = "."
default_settings = [
  "pydantic_settings_export.settings:Settings",
]
dotenv = { "name" = ".env.example" }

[tool.pydantic_settings_export.markdown]
name = "Configuration.md"
save_dirs = [
  "docs",
  "wiki",
]

Todo

• Add tests
• Add more configuration options
• Add more output formats
  • TOML (and pyproject.toml)
  • JSON
  • YAML

License

MIT