On Mon, 05 May 2008 00:35:51 -0700, sandipm wrote: > Hi, > In my application, I have some configurable information which is used > by different processes. currently I have stored configration in a > conf.py file as name=value pairs, and I am importing conf.py file to > use this variable. it works well > > import conf > print conf.SomeVariable > > but if I need to change some configuration parameteres, it would need > me to restart processes. > > I want to store this data in some conf file (txt) and would like to > use it same way as I am using these variables as defined in py > files. > > one solution I can think of is writing data as a dictionary into conf > file. and then by reading data, apply eval on that data. and update > local dict? but this is not a good solution.... > > any pointers? > > Sandip
The 'simple but relatively dangerous way', already suggested, is to reload() the module. A safer way - but requiring more work - could be to build something around the Configparser module in the standard library ... Ciao ----- FB -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list