[Baypiggies] Reading k=v format files

[Ian Zimmerman]

On 2015-10-03 12:09 -0700, David Berthelot wrote:

> The module ConfigParser in the standard library could be of help since it
> seems to do exactly this:
> https://docs.python.org/2/library/configparser.html

Sadly, no.

$ python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Mar 13 2014, 11:03:55) 
[GCC 4.7.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import ConfigParser as CP
>>> p=CP.RawConfigParser()
>>> p.read('auth')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ConfigParser.py", line 305, in read
    self._read(fp, filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ConfigParser.py", line 512, in _read
    raise MissingSectionHeaderError(fpname, lineno, line)
ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section
headers.
file: auth, line: 1

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