Hi quick question about

prefect.context

. In my config.toml, a context variable is defined like

foo = "202010"

. In the task definition, it’s used like

year = prefect.context.foo[:4]

but it causes

int object is not subscriptable

error. Is there a way to make it work without doing

str(foo[:4])

?

Things that look like integers in the

config.toml

are automatically loaded as integers unfortunately. If you add any non-numeric characters to that it would remain a string.

Interesting. Thank you!

If you're running without cloud/server, you can always configure the context programmatically:

with prefect.context(foo=...):
    flow.run()

I am running with the server for concurrency.

If you're running with cloud/server, I recommend not configuring things from within context, as its not as easy to port to different runtime environments. Ideally any parameters you need at runtime would be passed in as

Parameter

tasks, or constants in the flow code.

I see. Thank you!