On Feb 3, 2005, at 2:17 AM, Eric Radman wrote:
I don't think we need a configuration parser in the tree at all. The
easiest and most flexible solution is to simply import * from a .py
config file.
I've started doing this a LOT with my various little apps, and I find it immensely useful. I started because I didn't want to take the time to write even a simple parser, but the major benefit turns out to be that I have a a fully functional programing language in my config files. That allows me to do computations, make decisions, read stuff form the file system, etc. -- all right there in the config file.
One major downside I do see is that you need to be sure that you trust the source of the config file, as any code, malicious or incautious, could be run.
-Chris
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