Added minimalistic user-defined config file handling for `mk_script.py`

mk_script.py

@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ YYYY_MM = '{:%Y-%m}'.format(datetime.date.today())
 tmpl_dir = resource_filename(__name__,'templates')
 tmpl_ext = '.tmpl'
 
+config_header = '# Configure file for {}\n'.format(os.path.basename(sys.argv[0]))
+config_file = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser('~'),'.mk_script.cfg')
 
 #------------------------------------------
 #-- Classes
@@ -89,7 +91,7 @@ class Script:
 #-- Main
 
 @begin.start(cmd_delim='--',
-             config_file='.mk_script.cfg',
+             config_file=config_file,
             )
 @begin.logging
 def run(
@@ -107,6 +109,19 @@ def run(
     based on template.
     """
 
+    #-- User-config handling
+    if author == None:
+        author = input(u'Author name is not yet set. Please enter author name.\n')
+        logging.info('Writing author name to config file {}'.format(config_file))
+        config = begin.cmdline.configparser.ConfigParser()
+        config['run'] = {}
+        config['run']['author'] = author
+        with open(config_file,'w') as f:
+            f.write(config_header)
+            config.write(f)
+            f.close()
+
+    #-- Filename handling
     fn_decomp = filename.split('.')
     if len(fn_decomp) == 1:
         basename = filename