include statement

[Peter Otten]

joakim.hove at gmail.com wrote:

> Thanks to all who took time to answer!
> 
> 
>> > is it possible in python to include another python source file into the
>> > current namespace, i.e.completely analogous to the #include statement
>> > in C.
> 
> [...]
> 
>> Tell us why you are contemplating such a thing, and someone
>> here will help you implement it the "Pythonic" way.
> 
> My application has a configuration file where lots of variables are
> set. (The configuration file is python source, so there is no
> home-brewed parsing involved.) The configuration file is starting to
> get quite large and unwieldy, so for this reason I would like to split
> it in several files.
> 
> I know I could do:
> from configA import *
> from configB import *
> 
> But I felt that the import statemant was 'more' than I wanted. Maybe I
> am just pedantic.

Maybe you like execfile() which would allow you to collect the configuration
files without the need for them to be reachable through the import
mechanism.

pattern = os.path.expanduser("~/.herron/config*.py")

for fn in glob.glob(pattern):
    execfile(fn)

# objects in the config*.py files now
# share one namespace.

Peter