Discussion on: Dead Simple Python: Project Structure and Imports

[Jason C. McDonald]

Is hard coding the relative path in that way frowned apon?

Most certainly, especially because you have to account for differences in path format between operating systems.

I'd recommend incorporating pkg_resources into your approach above.

def conf():
    config = configparser.ConfigParser(converters={'list': lambda x: [i.strip() for i in x.split(',')]},
                                       allow_no_value=True)
    path = pkg_resources.resource_filename(
            __name__,
            os.path.join(os.pardir, 'Resources', 'generateandsend.ini')
        )
    config.read(path)
    section = config['test']
    string_a = section.get('StringA', None)
    string_b = section.get('StringB', None)

    return string_a, string_b

I believe that will work? You'll have to check how config.read() handles an absolute path.

[Ashley Hoff]

Beautiful. Thanks. I had to massage it a little and remove os.pardir, as it was giving me a false directory on my windows machine (C:\tmp\generateandsend\..\Resources\generateandsend.ini).

The resultant path variable now looks like:

path = pkg_resources.resource_filename(__name__, os.path.join('Resources', 'dummy.ini'))

I just need to test this on my Linux box

Cheers again. Send the bill to...... 😉