Why shouldn't you put config options in py files

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

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.