Storing settings in config files and then let python read the configfiles and to good stuff .
Read the file
#Reading config file
config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
config.read('setting.cfg')
print all items and values in an section
for name, value in config.items("monitor"):
print ' %s = %s' % (name, value)
Print all items in configfile
for section_name in parser.sections():
print 'Section:', section_name
print ' Options:', parser.options(section_name)
for name, value in parser.items(section_name):
print ' %s = %s' % (name, value)
My settings.cfg file looks like this
[monitor] <--- Section check_load:10 name:value
That easy.