global_config.py
Depending on how you look at this it's either an elegant hack or an ugly hack.
This loads a bunch of values from a config file into the global variable space.
from ConfigParser import SafeConfigParser as ConfigParser
config = ConfigParser()
config.read('/some/config/file/here')
for sections in config.sections():
for key, value in config.items(section):
globals()[key] = value
