try: from configparser import ConfigParser except ImportError: from ConfigParser import ConfigParser class Config(object): def __init__(self, filename = 'config'): self.config_section = 'foo' self.config = ConfigParser() self.config.read(filename) def get(self, key): return self.config.get(self.config_section, key) def getint(self, key): return self.config.getint(self.config_section, key) config = Config()