loading configuration files that are themselves python

[Matthew Vernon]

Peter Otten <__peter__ at web.de> writes:

> Matthew Vernon wrote:
> 
> > Is there a more idiomatic way of loading in a configuration file
> > that's python code than:
> > 
> > _temp=__import__(path,fromlist='cachestrs')
> > cachestrs=_temp.cachestrs
> > 
> > ? I mean, that's pretty ugly...Plain "import" doesn't work in this
> > case because 'path' is a variable defined elsewhere
> 
> execfile(path) 
> 
> in a module with a fixed name that you can import wherever you need access 
> to your configuration data?

That looks like what I want, thanks :)

Matthew

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