Smart config file parsing

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

Cliff Wells wrote:
> 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.

Let me invert the question: is there a particular reason to
use ConfigParser?

The whole channel parsing logic is done in a function of 18 lines, and
that includes the application logic which does the actual processing
of the channel turning it into a Channel instance, and verifying if
the channel has a type.  I doubt using ConfigParser would be easier
or simpler, and it'd be slower for sure.

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