Grabs config sections as dicts

config.py

"""
config.py
John Andersen
johnandersenpdx@gmail.com

This file provides quick access to sections
of a config file by use of ConfigParser.
"""

import os
import ConfigParser
import copy


def str2bool(variable):
    """
    Tests whether a variable would equate to True
    """
    return str(variable).lower() in ("yes", "true", "t", "1", "on")

def config(file_name = 'config.txt'):
    """
    Reads the config file and returns config object
    """
    config_txt = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
    config_txt.read(file_name)
    return config_txt

def section(name):
    """
    Returns the section of the config file as a dict
    """
    items = {}
    all_items = config().items(name)
    for item in all_items:
        items[item[0]] = item[1]
    return items