loading configuration files that are themselves python

[Peter Otten]

Matthew Vernon wrote:

> Is there a more idiomatic way of loading in a configuration file
> that's python code than:
> 
> _temp=__import__(path,fromlist='cachestrs')
> cachestrs=_temp.cachestrs
> 
> ? I mean, that's pretty ugly...Plain "import" doesn't work in this
> case because 'path' is a variable defined elsewhere

execfile(path) 

in a module with a fixed name that you can import wherever you need access 
to your configuration data?

Peter