Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> writes: > Matthew Vernon wrote: > > > Is there a more idiomatic way of loading in a configuration file > > that's python code than: > > > > _temp=__import__(path,fromlist='cachestrs') > > cachestrs=_temp.cachestrs > > > > ? I mean, that's pretty ugly...Plain "import" doesn't work in this > > case because 'path' is a variable defined elsewhere > > execfile(path) > > in a module with a fixed name that you can import wherever you need access > to your configuration data?
That looks like what I want, thanks :) Matthew -- Rapun.sel - outermost outpost of the Pick Empire http://www.pick.ucam.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list