how to “source” file into python script

Question

I have a text file /etc/default/foo which contains one line:

FOO=\"/path/to/foo\"

In my python script, I need to reference the

Answer 1

Just to give a different approach, note that if your original file is setup as

export FOO=/path/to/foo

You can do source /etc/default/foo; python myprogram.py (or . /etc/default/foo; python myprogram.py) and within myprogram.py all the values that were exported in the sourced' file are visible in os.environ, e.g

import os
os.environ["FOO"]