Global Configuration Variables

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <slrn8unup8.k2.mballen at angus.mimosa.com>,
Michael B. Allen <mballen at erols.com> wrote:
>
>I would like to have some global configuration parameters in a class
>that can be accessed like this:
>
>server = smtplib.SMTP(Config.mailserver)
>...
>
>My class might have default values, be stored in a module called
>config.py, and look like this:
>
>class Config:
>    spoolfile = 'mail.spool'
>    mailserver = os.environ['HOSTNAME']
>    mailaddr = os.environ['USER'] + '@' + mailserver
>	...
>
>and then I want to be able to override these defaults with something like:
>
>def configinit(filename):
>    execfile(filename, Config.__dict__)

The only change I'd recommend is making configinit a method of Config
rather than a separate function.
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