Dictionnary vs Class for configuration

[Peter Otten]

Famille Delorme wrote:

With a little bit of glue you can define the configuration in _your_ style
while accessing it in your _professor's_:

<config.py>
config_sql = {
                "DATABASE" : "nanana",
                "USERDB" : "bob",
                "PASSWORD" : "********"
                    }
config_script = {
                "TIMETOSLEEP" : 100,
                "PATH" : "/home/script"
                }
</config.py>

<configwrapper.py>
import config

class Config:
    def __init__(self, section):
        d = getattr(config, "config_%s" % section.lower())
        for k, v in d.iteritems():
            setattr(self, k.lower(), v)
</configwrapper.py>

Use it:

<useconfig.py>
from configwrapper import Config

cfg = Config("SQL")
print cfg.database
</useconfig.py>

Your _users_ might prefer a solution based on ConfigParser, as they most
likely have already been exposed to its format:

[SQL]
DATABASE=nanana
USERDB=bob
PASSWORD=********

Peter

PS: Remember to avoid storing the password in plain text