configobj in Python

Python comes with a handy module called ConfigParser. It’s good for creating and reading configuration files (aka INI files). However, Michael Foord (author of IronPython in Action) and Nicola Larosa decided to write their own configuration module called ConfigObj. In many ways, it is an improvement over the standard library’s module. For example, it will return a dictionary-like object when it reads a config file. ConfigObj can also understand some Python types. Another neat feature is that you can create a configuration spec that ConfigObj will use to validate the config file.

Getting Started

First of all, you need to go and get ConfigObj. This is a good time to use your knowledge from the last chapter on installing packages. Here is how you would get ConfigObj with pip: