Why shouldn't you put config options in py files

[James Matthews]

I am going to have to agree with your colleague. I use Django a lot and you
are editing config.py and urls.py which are all python code.

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Bruno Desthuilliers <
bdesth.quelquechose at free.quelquepart.fr> wrote:

> HT a écrit :
>
>> A colleague of mine is arguing that since it is easy to write config like:
>>
>> FOO = {'bar': ('a': 'b'), 'abc': ('z': 'x')}
>>
>> in config.py and just import it to get FOO, but difficult to achieve the
>> same using an ini file and ConfigParser, and since Python files are just
>> text, we should just write the config options in the Python file and
>> import it.
>>
>> I can think of lots of arguments why this is a bad idea, but I don't
>> seem to be able to think of a really convincing one.
>>
>> Anyone?
>>
>
> Well... Depends on who is writing these config files and how they are used.
> But at least one major Python software (namely Django) uses .py setting
> files, and a Python developper I'm grateful they do - this greatly
> simplifies my job.
>
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