I maintain a few configuration files in Python syntax (mainly nested dicts of ints and strings) and use execfile() to read them back to Python. This has been working great; it combines the convenience of pickle with the readability of Python. So far each configuration is contained in a single standalone file; different configurations are completely separate files.
Now I'd like to factor out the commonalities of the different configurations in a master config and specify only the necessary modifications and additions in each concrete config file. I tried the simplest thing that could possibly work: ====================== # some_config.py # master_config.py is in the same directory as some_config.py from master_config import * # override non-default options foo['bar']['baz] = 1 ... ====================== # trying to set the configuration: CFG = {} execfile('path/to/some_config.py', CFG) Traceback (most recent call last): ... ImportError: No module named master_config I understand why this fails but I'm not sure how to tell execfile() to set the path accordingly. Any ideas ? George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list