text: Reading .INI files is very easy with Python. Say you had a file, "config.cfg", with this content:
  [numbers] one: 1 two: 2
  The code to read that content is:
  import configparser conf = configparser.ConfigParser() conf.read("config.cfg") items = conf.items("numbers") print(items)
  Output:
  [('one', '1'), ('two', '2')]
  That's a list of tuples, each tuple a key-value pair.
  Even better, since these are key-value pairs, why not use a more suitable data type? Here goes:
  import configparser conf = configparser.ConfigParser() conf.read("config.cfg") items = dict(conf.items("numbers")) print(items)
  Output:
  {'two': '2', 'one': '1'}
  That's the dict function, which takes a list of tuples, and converts them to a dictionary. You might also have noticed that the ordering is now a bit off. That's because the dict type doesn't care about ordering. Remember that in order to access dictionary content, you use a key and not an index:
  >>> d = {1: 'one'} >>> d[0] Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in KeyError: 0 >>> d[1] 'one'