[reportlab-users] Python 3.x progress

[Robin Becker]

We always had a sort of local rl config, but it wasn't exactly documented. 
Inside rl_config there is code that does this

....
x='....value'
....


#### Normally don't need to edit below here ####
try:
	from local_rl_config import *
except:
	pass

.....

this allows fully overriding any of the x set in the start of rl_config, but not 
modifications thereof.

Is this not enough? If not how should we separate the settings from the code 
that resets re-registers etc etc.

One can imagine schemes like (pseudo code)

#rl_config.py

try:
     import local_rl_settings
except:
     import rl_settings
     _settings = get_settings_from(rl_settings)
else:
     import rl_settings
     _settings = get_settings_from(rl_settings)
     _settings.update(get_settings_from(local_rl_settings))

for k,v in _settings.items():
     globals()[k] = v

......
reset code etc etc

that would allow local_rl_settings to import rl_settings and modify values and 
keeps the defaults separate from the code. How one implements get_settings_from 
etc is to be discussed.
-- 
Robin Becker