| cast_as | Helper function to cast data from keyword of function |
| find_config_files | Config file search |
| get_config | Search for config files and return variable / value pairs as a list. |
| get_config_filename_from_dir | Return config file path found in a directory |
| get_var | Retrive the value of the variable |
| is_undefined | Test if object if of class _UNDEFINED |
| load_dot_env | Load environment variables from the specified file |
| parse_dot_line | Parse environment variables from lines in a .env file |
| random_string | Generate a random string of specified length |
| remove_comments | Parse config file and remove comment lines |
| remove_empty_lines | Parse config file and remove empty lines |
| to_logical | Convert categorical representations of true/false values to a logical |