--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/python/simpleconf.py	Mon Jan 23 20:41:10 2012 -0800
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+def simpleconf(filename, sep='='):
+    assert os.path.exists(filename)
+    lines = [line.strip() for line in file(filename).readlines()]
+    lines = [line for line in lines if line and not line.startswith('#')]
+    assert not [line for line in lines if sep not in line]
+    return dict([line.split(sep, 1) for line in lines])