Burton Samograd wrote: > Hi, > > I'm writing an app that stores some user configuration variables in a > file ~/.program/config, which it then imports like so: > > import sys > from posix import environ > sys.path.append(environ["HOME"]+"/.program") > import config > > I can then access the configuration through code like: > > login(config.username) > > My question is, how can I setup my program defaults so that they can > be overwritten by the configuration variables in the user file (and so
You could use the ConfigParser module instead of putting your config in a Python module. ConfigParser allows specifying defaults. Kent -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
