These are some examples on using ConfigParser, assuming the following INI file...

[SectionOne]
Status: Single
Name: Derek
Value: Yes
Age: 29
Single: True

[SectionTwo]
FavoriteColor=Green
[SectionThree]
FamilyName: Johnson

[Others]
Route: 66

>>> import ConfigParser
>>> Config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
>>> Config
<ConfigParser.ConfigParser instance at 0x00BA9B20>
>>> Config.read("c:\\tomorrow.ini")
['c:\\tomorrow.ini']
>>> Config.sections()
['Others', 'SectionThree', 'SectionOne', 'SectionTwo']
>>> 

Explanation: We first import the configparser, tell it to read the file, and get a listing of the sections. Sections are listed in square brackets [].

Next, we are going to get some settings, after defining a helper function.

The Function:

def ConfigSectionMap(section):
    dict1 = {}
    options = Config.options(section)
    for option in options:
        try:
            dict1[option] = Config.get(section, option)
            if dict1[option] == -1:
                DebugPrint("skip: %s" % option)
        except:
            Print("exception on %s!" % option)
            dict1[option] = None
    return dict1

Now the code:

>>>Name = ConfigSectionMap("SectionOne")['name']
>>>Age = ConfigSectionMap("SectionOne")['age']
>>>print "Hello %s. You are %s years old." % (Name, Age)
Hello Derek. You are 29 years old.

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