loading configuration files that are themselves python

[Terry Reedy]

On 7/3/2010 5:15 AM, Matthew Vernon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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

cachestrs=__import__(path,fromlist='cachestrs').cachestrs
?

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Terry Jan Reedy