[Tutor] Pythonic Style Question

[Richard Damon]

Background:

Long time programmer (started with punch cards) but fairly new to punch
cards, but fairly new to Python.

Working on a program that will be a moderate size program when done, and
doing it in Python as it looks to be a reasonable choice, and a good
learning experience.

Decided to try running pylint on it to see what sort or 'Preferred
Style' it would lead me to (might as well have something look over the
code and critique it) (I know the weaknesses of Linters, but worth a shot)

Getting a lot of coding style errors for module global variables that
seem to be a reasonable way to do it, but figured I would ask to see if
there is a more Pythonic method to do these.

Example, application will have a number of settings stored in a
configuration file, so I have a myconfig.py module that is called with
the path to the config file, that uses configparser to read in the
options and create a module global variable (config) that other parts of
the system can import, and then query/set by accessing.

pylint first complains that these 'constants' should be in ALL_CAPS (but
they aren't constants, so I don't think they should be ALL_CAPS), and in
the function that will set it up, complains of the global statement so
it can access the module global. I could also create my own access
wrappers to get/set options, that other modules will call, but I would
think I would still need the module global (and making it _config to
mark it as a non-global still gets all the warnings about the constant
not being ALL_CAPS).

Is there another better way to do this sort of thing? or is pylint just
being over picky (as lints are prone to be) and I need to put a comment
on the statement to tell pylint it is ok?

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Richard Damon