Hi all, I recently opened this bug report [1] stating that ConfigParser not handling configuration files without sections (or those that have options above first section definition) is an issue. ConfigParser* should be able to parse "POSIX" config files (key=value, no sections). I'd like to lobby even for it being the default behavior without requiring a strict=False argument. If interested, please have a look at the bug report for some further arguments. Thanks, [1]: http://bugs.python.org/issue22253 * It's called ConfigParser, not IniParser.