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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:10:41 -0400
From: Rod Person <rodperson@rodperson.com>
To: Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de>
Subject: Re: class checking its own module for an attribute
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On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:59:56 +0100
Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> wrote:

> Rod Person wrote:
> 
> > We have a module called constants.py, which contains [whatever]
> > related to server names, databases, service account users and their
> > passwords.
> 
> Passwords?
> 

Yes, not the best thing, but they are only service account that run
nightly batch jobs. Everyone in our IT department knows these password
and users. I only deploy the .pyo or .pyc files for this module,
although I'm looking into a better way than that.






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