What's the most pythonic method for specifying a configuration file?
<p>I'm writing a daemon script in Python and would like to be able to specify settings in a file that the program expects to read (like .conf files). The standard library has configparser and xdrlib file formats, but neither seems pythonic; the former being a Microsoft standard and the latter a Sun Microsystems standard.</p>

<p>I could write my own, but I'd rather stick to a well-known and documented standard, than reinvent the wheel.</p>
