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    <p>Many frameworks keep their configuration files in a language different from the rest of the program. Eg, Appengine keeps the configuration in yaml format. to compare, DJango settings.py is a python module. There are many disadvantages I can see with this.</p> <p>If its in same language as rest of the program, I can</p> <p>Do interesting things in the configuration file.</p> <pre><code> MEDIA_DIR = os.path.join(os.path.dir(__file__), 'media') #Or whaever the correct cals are, you get the idea. </code></pre> <ul> <li>Don't have to learn a new(admittedly lightweight) format</li> <li>My tools work as expected with it.</li> <li>I can just do <code>import conf</code> etc.</li> </ul> <p>I can see the advantages if it were a heavyweight language like C/C++ etc, but for python why does it make sense. It just seems like taking away power without adding any benefits.</p>
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