Question

I have a file that contains all the variables my application needs:

config.py

AWS_KEY=1234
AWS_SECRET=5678

modules/db.py

from project.libraries import boto as boto

conn = boto.connect_dynamodb(
  aws_access_key_id=AWS_KEY
  aws_secret_access_key=AWS_SECRET)

How can I get the variables from config.py into modules/db.py?
(Or, is this the wrong approach?)

Thanks.

Answer 1

modules/db.py

import config
AWS_KEY = config.AWS_KEY

Alternatively,

from config import AWS_KEY, AWS_SECRET

Or, if you want to keep the config prefix,

import config
print config.AWS_KEY

Forgive me if you’ve already done so, but have you read about python modules?