python single configuration file

Question

I am developing a project that requires a single configuration file whose data is used by multiple modules.
My question is: what is the common approach to that? should i rea

Answer 1

I like the approach of a single config.py module whose body (when first imported) parses one or more configuration-data files and sets its own "global variables" appropriately -- though I'd favor config.teamdata over the round-about config.data['teamdata'] approach.

This assumes configuration settings are read-only once loaded (except maybe in unit-testing scenarios, where the test-code will be doing its own artificial setting of config variables to properly exercise the code-under-test) -- it basically exploits the nature of a module as the simplest Pythonic form of "singleton" (when you don't need subclassing or other features supported only by classes and not by modules, of course).

"One or more" configuration files (e.g. first one somewhere in /etc for general default settings, then one under /usr/local for site-specific overrides thereof, then again possibly one in the user's home directory for user specific settings) is a common and useful pattern.