Here's an example configuration file:

.. topic:: example.cfg
 :class: write-file

 ::

   [A Section]
   dir=frob
   long: this value continues
     on the next line

.. invisible-code-block: python
   
  # change to the temp directory
  import os
  os.chdir(tempdir.path)

To parse this file using the :mod:`ConfigParser` module, you would
do the following:

.. code-block:: python

   from ConfigParser import ConfigParser
   config = ConfigParser()
   config.read('example.cfg')

The items in the section are now available as follows:

>>> for name,value in config.items('A Section'):
...     print '%r:%r' % (name,value)
'dir':'frob'
'long':'this value continues\non the next line'
