[sarahdellysse]

So basically you want something like how typescript does, where you can do this:

    const config = {
      rootDirectory: "/tmp",
      shouldFrobnicate: false,
    }

I'm far from a python expert, more like a TS dev who occasionally tries to write Python, but when I'm in that situation I find that writing one-off classes seems to be python's way of doing things. I'm not a super big fan of it myself, but it works:

    from dataclasses import dataclass
    
    def _create_config():
      @dataclass(kw_only=True)
      class Config:
        root_directory: str = "/tmp"
        should_frobnicate: bool = False
      return Config()
    config = _create_config()

I experimented with making a decorator that could do something like this, but never got it working with `mypy` so I gave up:

    @iife
    def config():
      @dataclass(kw_only=True)
      class Config:
        root_directory: str = "/tmp"
        should_frobnicate: bool = False
      return Config()

the `@iife` would make it so that `config` was a variable, not a `def`, but yeah the whole thing stank so I gave up