Smart config file parsing

[Cliff Wells]

Looking at smart/channel.py, it appears that the config file is manually
parsed, despite the fact that it's just an RFC 822 (ini) file that could
be much more easily parsed by ConfigParser or equivalent.  

Is there a particular reason for this?   AFAIK, ConfigParser has been in
the Python standard library since at least 2.3, so portability shouldn't
be an issue.

Regards,
Cliff