hat can be used as a decorator for other functions that require settings to be loaded. Functions with this decorator will be provided with the configuration as its 'config' keyword argument. .. versionchanged:: 1.3.0 Omits the 'config' argument if the funcion we're decorating doesn't accept it. :: uses_settings = stem.util.conf.uses_settings('my_app', '/path/to/settings.cfg') @uses_settings def my_function(config): print 'hello %s!' % config.get('username', '') :param str handle: hande for the configuration :param str path: path where the configuration should be loaded from :param bool lazy_load: loads the configuration file when the decorator is used if true, otherwise it's loaded right away :returns: **function** that can be used as a decorator to provide the configuration :raises: **IOError** if we fail to read the configuration file, if **lazy_load** is true then this arises when we use the decorator Tc