modifiable config files in compiled code?

[Tom Willis]

 10 Mar 2005 06:02:22 -0800, gaudetteje at gmail.com <gaudetteje at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I've been trying to come up with an elegant solution to this problem,
> but can't seem to think of anything better than my solution below.
> 
> I have a Python program that needs to be converted into an executable.
> The problem is that I have a "config" template file that I've been
> using to modify initialization constants such as paths, global
> variables, structures, etc.  Obviously, once I convert my code into an
> executable I can no longer read/write to my configuration file.
> 
> My solution was to convert this config file into a standard ASCII text
> document and have Python parse it for user set variables.  This doesn't
> seem like the most elegant of solutions; however, and I thought others
> must have implemented a better way than this.
> 
> Anyone have a better solution for this problem?
> 
> Jay
> 
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Don't know if you knew about this.....


#example
from ConfigParser import ConfigParser



        
def getconfig():
    """
    initialize configuration settings
    """
    result = ConfigParser()
    result.read("config.ini")
    return result
   


def main():
    """
    runs the app
    """
    config = getconfig()


...
        dbsettings = {}

        for key,value in  config.items("db"):
           print "%s: %s" % (key,value)

        #etc...


#-------------------config.ini--------------
;db settings
[db]
server = 127.0.0.1
db = db
user = user
password = password
#--------------------end config.ini------------        

There are other projects for dealing with config information but
ConfigParser is included wth python I think.

Hope that helps...




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