lightweight human-readable config?

[Maxim Khesin]

> Will the standard library ConfigParser work?  Point your web
> browser here:
> 
>     http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-ConfigParser.html
> 
> Regards,
> Heather

Thanks for the pointer. It is not clear how this supports defaults 
(without understanding windows .ini (I cannot find official docs for 
that) of RFC 822 (I found too much documentation for this :) )
m