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ConfigParser:

http://docs.python.org/2/library/configparser.html

>>> from ConfigParser import RawConfigParser as ConfigParser
>>> ConfigParser().read('test.conf')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/ConfigParser.py", line 305, in read
    self._read(fp, filename)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/ConfigParser.py", line 546, in _read
    raise e
ConfigParser.ParsingError: File contains parsing errors: test.conf
	[line  2]: ' rabbit_password = openstack\n'

iniparse:

http://code.google.com/p/iniparse/

>>> from iniparse import INIConfig
>>> INIConfig(open('test.conf'))
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/iniparse/ini.py", line 471, in __init__
    self._readfp(fp)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/iniparse/ini.py", line 641, in _readfp
    raise exc
ConfigParser.ParsingError: File contains parsing errors: test.conf
	[line  2]:  rabbit_password = openstack


configobj:

http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.html#the-config-file-format

>>> from configobj import ConfigObj
>>> ConfigObj('test.conf')
ConfigObj({'DEFAULT': {'rabbit_password': 'openstack'}})