Burton Samograd wrote:
> A reply to my own question, but I thought I would share the answer. I
> got it to work with the following code:
>
> import config
> import sys
> from posix import environ
> sys.path.insert(0, environ["HOME"]+"/.program")
> reload(config)
>
> I have a file in my working directory that contains all the program
> variables with default values called config.py, which is loaded at the
> start, and then the user configuration directory is inserted into the
> load path and then their config.py is loaded, which will then
> overwrite the default values.
since you know the name of the config file you're looking for, you can
simplify (and unweirdify) your code a bit by changing your config file to
look like this:
# File: config.py
#
# configuration defaults
some_param = "value"
some_other_param = 1
#
# get user overrides
import os
try:
execfile(os.path.expanduser("~/.program/config.py"))
except IOError:
pass # ignore missing config file, but not syntax errors
# end of file
with this in place, you just have to do
import config
in any application module than needs to access the configuration data.
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