Best way to retrieve variable values from a text file?

Question

Referring on this question, I have a similar -but not the same- problem..

On my way, I\'ll have some text file, structured like:

var_a: \'home\'
var_         


        

Answer 1

hbn's answer won't work out of the box if the file to load is in a subdirectory or is named with dashes.

In such a case you may consider this alternative :

exec open(myconfig.py).read()

Or the simpler but deprecated in python3 :

execfile(myconfig.py)

I guess Stephan202's warning applies to both options, though, and maybe the loop on lines is safer.