#define equivalents and config files

[Dave Swegen]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 11:43:43PM -0500, Peter Hansen wrote:
> Rich Salz wrote:
> > 
> > > Is there a pythonic way of doing something similiar to Cs #define?
> >  >... are globals the only way to go?
> > 
> > You can at least make them class attributes
> >         class constants:
> >                 pi = 3.14159
> >                 e = 2.71828
> > adding your own setattr can serve to make them read-only.
> 
> That wouldn't help when one needed to change the values...

I'm basically after a single file where such values can be stored, and
then used in various parts of the program without having to pass extra
configuation variables around.

Cheers
	Dave