Tracy R Reed wrote: > I am writing a small python application that needs a few variables to be > end user configurable. Right now I just have the variables right up > front where the user can tweak them in the program code and a big > commented line that says "Nothing editable past this point." But I would > like to be able to break this out into a separate config file. There are > two ways I see to do this: > > 1. Use ConfigParser. But from all of the docs and examples I see > ConfigParser only accepts name=value type pairs. How can I implement a > list or a dictionary of configs in ConfigParser? > > Part of my config involves things like: > > foo = ['bar','baz','bah'] > > How would I represent this cleanly in config parser?
ConfigObj supports list data. http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.html There is a list of alternative config file parsers here: http://wiki.python.org/moin/ConfigParserShootout To import a file in Python syntax whose name doesn't end in .py, I think you can use the imp module though I'm not certain of the details. This post might give you some clues: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/775dabe0a5e63f4f/f3bb17d8c7377aad?q=import+imp&rnum=3#f3bb17d8c7377aad Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
