Depends how you deploy it. Python can import a file located anywhere you want, either by changing PYTHONPATH or using importlib. And vice versa an xml-config fi

Depends how you deploy it. Python can import a file located anywhere you want, either by changing PYTHONPATH or using importlib. And vice versa an xml-config file might be placed in the repo and going through code review. Code review for config changes is a good practice in either case, see gitops and config as code.