.. _ligare-programming:

Ligare.programming
==================

``Ligare.programming`` provides functionality to help you extend your application.
It is a loose collection of programming patterns, utilities, and integration APIs
for working with other Ligare libraries.

Why Use Ligare.programming?
---------------------------

``Ligare.programming`` offers several pieces of functionality. You can use it for:

* Extending argparse to allow more sophiscated command line application usage
* Merging dictionaries and type-hinting nested dictionary types
* Integrating Ligare's configuration system so your application can avoid hard-coding variables for use during runtime
* Dependency injection, singletons, and other software design patterns