2008/8/24 Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have a specific file in the web tree that makes a database call. I >> am uncomfortable keeping the database username and password in the >> file. In PHP I usually put the database connection data in a file >> outside the web tree and use the include (http://il.php.net/include/) >> function to get the data. Is there a similar mechanism in Python? What >> do other Python programmers use? > > You can use the normal file open() and read() functions to read the > username and password from a file. You can write the file as a Python > module, put it somewhere in the Python path and import it. You can use > the ConfigParser module to read an INI file... > > Kent >
I think that I will use the open() and read() functions, thanks! I did think of that, but I wanted to know if there was a better wheel invented already. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
