#define equivalents and config files

[Remco Gerlich]

Dave Swegen <dswegen at software.plasmon.com> wrote in comp.lang.python:
> 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.

How about just putting them in a module?

Have a file constants.py that just reads


name = "My Program"
pi = 3.1415926536


Then you can import constants and use constants.name, constants.pi, etc. You
can even "from constants import *" to directly put them in another module as
variables.

-- 
Remco Gerlich