[Tutor] setting program configuration for all files and modules ofa program

[Tim Michelsen]

>>> Another option is to have the config settiongs in a normal
>>> Python module and just import it. 
> 
>> I think that the cfg-files are much more readable for others.
> 
> More readable than:
> 
> # Section Heading
> variable = value
> 
> It looks pretty easy to read to me! :-)
> 
> If its very complex you can use dictionaries:
> 
> SectionFoo = {
> firstName : theValue
> second  : anotherValue
> }
> 
> Which is still pretty easy for the casual reader/maintainer 
> and allows access like:
> 
> import myconfig
> foo2 = myconfig.SectionFoo['second']
This seems like reinventing what the ConfigParser mdoule [1] already does.

I think I will read the config file once and the provide the parameters 
with a settings.py module throughout the program and the modules.
Sounds like doing it twice.
But to my optinion Config Parser offers the following advantage:
- Readable
- All are strings => no strange 'mysetting' is needed.

Thanks for your help.

Kind regards,
Timmie

[1]http://docs.python.org/lib/module-ConfigParser.html