On 2013-03-06, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Steven D'Aprano ><steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> What configuration settings does your podcast catcher software >> need? What makes you think it needs any? Don't over-engineer >> your application from the start. Begin with the simplest thing >> that works, and go from there. > > Agreed. The way I generally do these things is to simply gather the > config entries into a block of literal assignments at the top of the > program: > > host = "ftp" > port = 21 > proxy = "192.168.0.3:81" > user = "transfers" > password = "secret"
I find it useful to stuff my config info in a class object; It is prettier than ALLCAPS, and also makes it simple to create and use new configurations without erasing or commenting out the old one. class Config: host = "ftp" port = 21 proxy = "192.168.0.3:81" user = "transfers" password = "secret" How much to engineer stuff is up to you. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
