Question

I have a project with 10 different python files. It has classes and functions – pretty much the lot.
I do want to share specific data that will represent the settings in the project between all the project files.

I came up with creating a settings.py file:

settings = {}
settings['max_bitrate'] = 160000
settings['dl_dir'] = r"C:\Downloads"

and then I import the class from every file.

Is there a more suitable way to do it?

Answer 1

I’m probably a little old-school in this regard, but in my latest project, I created a config file in /etc, then created a config module that uses ConfigParser to read it in and make it available, and import that config module wherever I need to read settings.