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

If you want to share your config across different machines, you could perhaps put it on a web server and do import like this:

import urllib2
confstr = urllib2.urlopen("http://yourhost/config.py").read()
exec(confstr)

And if you want to share it across different languages, perhaps you can use JSON to encode and parse the configuration:

import urllib2
import simplejson
confstr = urllib2.urlopen("http://yourhost/config.py").read()
config = simplejson.loads(confstr)