[Python-Dev] Re: LOAD_NAME & classes (original) (raw)

Fran�ois Pinard pinard@iro.umontreal.ca
23 Apr 2002 15:49:47 -0400

[Michael Gilfix]

It would be nice if python offered a facility for sharing pooled data: maybe a global configuration object? That way it's more explicit. It could also remove some redundant code that I tend to put in many applications.

import config

myopt = config.getopt ('mymodule') # Set a new global opt config.setopt ('attrib') = blah

Maybe even provide some hooks for populating the config object.

I already use `config' (that precise identifier) a lot in my things, so please do not even think using it for something else! :-) :-)

For small projects, such a thing might be overkill. For big projects, there are a few (maybe many) avenues and ways how to achieve this sharing, and I'm glad having the freedom of installing subtle nuances between projects, as needed. That is, I would fear a bit being pulled in an arbitrary direction: it would have to be convincingly damned good. :-)

Better, maybe, would be to merely document some of the possible avenues. Most of these require only a tiny investment in lines of code anyway.

-- Fran�ois Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard