Recommended "new" way for config files

[Robert Kern]

On 2010-01-07 10:10 AM, Peter wrote:
> Hi
> There seems to be several strategies to enhance the old ini-style config
> files with real python code, for example:
>
> 1) the documentation tool sphinx uses a python file conf.py that is
> exefile(d) , but execfile is suppressed in Python 3

Only because it is redundant, not because it is a discouraged approach. You can 
still read the file and exec() the resulting string.

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Robert Kern

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