More messing with the project file.

[pyutils.git] / src / pyutils / config.py

diff --git a/src/pyutils/config.py b/src/pyutils/config.py
index ad97038ed4f4da3f603b84eaedd1d6cde8a77c55..ed9a8212c0c8d1c40a6ecabd933eb23f1bf5cbb1 100644 (file)
--- a/src/pyutils/config.py
+++ b/src/pyutils/config.py
@@ -224,6 +224,7 @@ GROUP.add_argument(
 GROUP.add_argument(
     '--config_allow_dynamic_updates',
     default=False,
+    action='store_true',
     help='If enabled, allow config flags with the string "dynamic" in their names to change at runtime when a new Zookeeper based configuration is created.  See the --config_savefile help message for more information about this option.',
 )
 GROUP.add_argument(
@@ -702,6 +703,15 @@ def parse(entry_module: Optional[str]) -> Dict[str, Any]:
     return CONFIG.parse(entry_module)
 
 
+def error(message: str, exit_code: int = 1) -> None:
+    """
+    Convenience method for indicating a configuration error.
+    """
+    logging.error(message)
+    print(message, file=sys.stderr)
+    sys.exit(exit_code)
+
+
 def has_been_parsed() -> bool:
     """Returns True iff the global config has already been parsed"""
     return CONFIG.has_been_parsed()