config files in python

[sandipm]

Thanks for various useful suggestions.
actually right now I am using conf files only in psp handler of
mod_python/apache
but I have other processes which might use same config files.

One way is I can put conf related data directly in database and
database handling module can directly pickup values from db.
but the problem with that approach is that it is difficult in managing
changes from version control system.as I need to explicitly
create DB scripts to put it in version control and other devs require
them run those scripts.

but if I put those conf params in files it would be easy for me to
change params and useful for other developers
to integrate those changes in their dev environments without doing any
explicit ops.

here I would like to have python file which read conf from text file
and load those params in current process space.
so only importing that python file should read up the conf file and
load the current process with configurable parameters.
I thought this would be good way to do it, rather than getting
involved in slightly complicted reload mechanisms of python modules?



Regards,
Sandip