Placement of config file reading

Question

I'm developing a CLI python program and I'm using ConfigParser. I know this is probably more to preference than anything else, but currently my configuration reading script is in config.py in a package. Would I be better off placing my configuration reading information in __init__.py?

Answer 1

My preference would to put it in config.py too, because __init__.py should be minimal, separate classes should be in separate files to lower maintainance overhead. So I would go ahead and create a Configuration class like this;

class Configuration:

    def getVersion():
        ....

    def getFoo()
        ....

    def getBar()
        ....

etc.