[danohuiginn]

yeah, that's not a bad way of doing it. I ended up with something more convoluted, partly because of the catch-22 situation of wanting to be able to specify the config file from the command-line.

More discussion of this problem: http://deadbraincells.org/configopt/docs/configopt.html http://wiki.python.org/moin/ConfigParserShootout#ConfigParse...