I am going to have to agree with your colleague. I use Django a lot and you are editing config.py and urls.py which are all python code.
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Bruno Desthuilliers < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HT a écrit : > >> A colleague of mine is arguing that since it is easy to write config like: >> >> FOO = {'bar': ('a': 'b'), 'abc': ('z': 'x')} >> >> in config.py and just import it to get FOO, but difficult to achieve the >> same using an ini file and ConfigParser, and since Python files are just >> text, we should just write the config options in the Python file and >> import it. >> >> I can think of lots of arguments why this is a bad idea, but I don't >> seem to be able to think of a really convincing one. >> >> Anyone? >> > > Well... Depends on who is writing these config files and how they are used. > But at least one major Python software (namely Django) uses .py setting > files, and a Python developper I'm grateful they do - this greatly > simplifies my job. > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://www.astorandblack.com/ http://www.thewatcherys.com/
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