# if you would like to specify the location of you music directory uncomment the following
#music_dir = '/home/shane/location/of/directory'
# if you would like to permantey set the bitrate used please unmcooment the following
#bit_rate = 192

config_file = '/etc/pythonriprc.py'
execfile(config_file)

# Config.cfg - a config file for Config.py
# G-Do, 08/08/2005

KEY1          Value1
KEY2          Value:2
KEY_3         C:\PROGRA~1\some-directory\somefile.txt
KEY_4         http://www.google.com/~g-do

import sys, re
# -- Loads a config file, creates and returns a dictionary
def load(filename):
     # Try to open a file handle on the config file and read the text
     # Possible exception #1 - the file might not be found
     # Possible exception #2 - the file might have read-protection
     try: configfile = open(filename, "r")
     except Exception, e: raise
     try: configtext = configfile.read()
     except Exception, e: raise
     # Compile a pattern that matches our key-value line structure
     pattern = re.compile("\\n([\w_]+)[\t ]*([\w: \\\/~.-]+)")
     # Find all matches to this pattern in the text of the config file
     tuples = re.findall(pattern, configtext)
     # Create a new dictionary and fill it: for every tuple (key, value) in
     # the 'tuples' list, set ret[key] to value 
     ret = dict()
     for x in tuples: ret[x[0]] = x[1]
     # Return the fully-loaded dictionary object
     return ret
# -- Main method (diagnostic)
def main(args):
     # Set a default filename
     filename = "doc\Config.cfg"
     # If there is a command-line argument, treat it as a filename
     if len(args) > 1: filename = args[1]
     # Run the load function and deal with any possible exceptions
     try: cfg = load(filename)
     except Exception, e:
          print "ERROR:", filename+":", e.args[1]
          sys.exit(1)
     # Print each key-value pair in the dictionary, terminate gracefully
     for x in cfg: print x, "\t", cfg[x]
     sys.exit(0)
# -- Call main if this program is being invoked from the command-line
if __name__ == "__main__": main(sys.argv)

import sys, Config
try: cfg = Config.load("my_config_file")
except Exception, e:
     print "Too bad, we can't load your file"
     sys.exit(1)
# Now we can reference all of our config values like so:
print cfg["SOMEKEY"]
# This prints the value associated with SOMEKEY in your config file
# Be careful not to reference a key that doesn't exist!