On Aug 6, 12:41 am, Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno. [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Allen a écrit : > > > > > Hello fellow pythoneers. I'm stumped on something, and I was hoping > > maybe someone in here would have an elegant solution to my problem. > > This is the first time I've played around with packages, so I'm > > probably misunderstanding something here... > > > Here's what I'd like to do in my package. I want my package to use a > > configuration file, and what I'd like is for the config file to appear > > magically in each module so I can just grab values from it without > > having to load and parse the config file in each package module. Not > > quite understanding how the __init__.py file works, I expected it to > > be as easy as just setting up the ConfigParser object and then I > > figured (since a package is a module) that it would now be global to > > my package and I could access it in my modules, but I was wrong... I > > don't want to have to pass it in to each module upon init, or anything > > lame like that. A main reason for this is that I'd like to be able to > > reload the config file dynamically and have all my modules > > automatically receive the new config. There must be a way to do this, > > but seeing how __init__.py's namespace is not available within the > > package modules, I don't see a simple and elegant way to do this. > > Does anybody have any suggestions? Thanks! > > Hi Chris... > I've read all the thread, and it seems that your problem is mostly to > share a single dynamic state (the config) between several modules. So I > do wonder: have you considered the use of the Singleton pattern (or one > of it's variants...) ?
Thanks, I don't know anything about python singletons. But I'll look it up.
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