I have a file I use for shell scripts that looks like this: export VAR1=/path/to/dir export VAR2=7 export VAR3=${VAR1}/further/path # comment . /another/file
And a file /another/file: export VAR4=database-name Is there an existing package that will read such a file and return a dictionary like this: { 'VAR1': '/path/to/dir', 'VAR2': 7, 'VAR3': '/path/to/dir/further/path', 'VAR4': 'database-name', } -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list