Обработка повторяющихся ключей с помощью ConfigParser

В итоге я унаследовал от класса RawConfigParser реализацию этой функции. В случае, если кто-то еще заинтересован в этом, вот код, который я использую:

import configparser

class ConfigParserMultiOpt(configparser.RawConfigParser):
  """ConfigParser allowing duplicate keys. Values are stored in a list"""

  def __init__(self):
    configparser.RawConfigParser.__init__(self, empty_lines_in_values=False, strict=False)

  def _read(self, fp, fpname):
    """Parse a sectioned configuration file.

    Each section in a configuration file contains a header, indicated by
    a name in square brackets (`[]'), plus key/value options, indicated by
    `name' and `value' delimited with a specific substring (`=' or `:' by
    default).

    Values can span multiple lines, as long as they are indented deeper
    than the first line of the value. Depending on the parser's mode, blank
    lines may be treated as parts of multiline values or ignored.

    Configuration files may include comments, prefixed by specific
    characters (`#' and `;' by default). Comments may appear on their own
    in an otherwise empty line or may be entered in lines holding values or
    section names.
    """
    elements_added = set()
    cursect = None                        # None, or a dictionary
    sectname = None
    optname = None
    lineno = 0
    indent_level = 0
    e = None                              # None, or an exception
    for lineno, line in enumerate(fp, start=1):
      comment_start = None
      # strip inline comments
      for prefix in self._inline_comment_prefixes:
        index = line.find(prefix)
        if index == 0 or (index > 0 and line[index-1].isspace()):
          comment_start = index
          break
      # strip full line comments
      for prefix in self._comment_prefixes:
        if line.strip().startswith(prefix):
          comment_start = 0
          break
      value = line[:comment_start].strip()
      if not value:
        if self._empty_lines_in_values:
          # add empty line to the value, but only if there was no
          # comment on the line
          if (comment_start is None and
              cursect is not None and
              optname and
              cursect[optname] is not None):
              cursect[optname].append('') # newlines added at join
        else:
          # empty line marks end of value
          indent_level = sys.maxsize
        continue
      # continuation line?
      first_nonspace = self.NONSPACECRE.search(line)
      cur_indent_level = first_nonspace.start() if first_nonspace else 0
      if (cursect is not None and optname and
          cur_indent_level > indent_level):
          cursect[optname].append(value)
      # a section header or option header?
      else:
        indent_level = cur_indent_level
        # is it a section header?
        mo = self.SECTCRE.match(value)
        if mo:
          sectname = mo.group('header')
          if sectname in self._sections:
            if self._strict and sectname in elements_added:
              raise DuplicateSectionError(sectname, fpname,
                                          lineno)
            cursect = self._sections[sectname]
            elements_added.add(sectname)
          elif sectname == self.default_section:
            cursect = self._defaults
          else:
            cursect = self._dict()
            self._sections[sectname] = cursect
            self._proxies[sectname] = configparser.SectionProxy(self, sectname)
            elements_added.add(sectname)
          # So sections can't start with a continuation line
          optname = None
        # no section header in the file?
        elif cursect is None:
          raise MissingSectionHeaderError(fpname, lineno, line)
        # an option line?
        else:
          mo = self._optcre.match(value)
          if mo:
            optname, vi, optval = mo.group('option', 'vi', 'value')
            if not optname:
              e = self._handle_error(e, fpname, lineno, line)
            optname = self.optionxform(optname.rstrip())
            if (self._strict and
              (sectname, optname) in elements_added):
              raise configparser.DuplicateOptionError(sectname, optname, fpname, lineno)
            elements_added.add((sectname, optname))
            # This check is fine because the OPTCRE cannot
            # match if it would set optval to None
            if optval is not None:
              optval = optval.strip()
              # Check if this optname already exists
              if (optname in cursect) and (cursect[optname] is not None):
                # If it does, convert it to a tuple if it isn't already one
                if not isinstance(cursect[optname], tuple):
                  cursect[optname] = tuple(cursect[optname])
                cursect[optname] = cursect[optname] + tuple([optval])
              else:
                cursect[optname] = [optval]
            else:
                # valueless option handling
                cursect[optname] = None
          else:
            # a non-fatal parsing error occurred. set up the
            # exception but keep going. the exception will be
            # raised at the end of the file and will contain a
            # list of all bogus lines
            e = self._handle_error(e, fpname, lineno, line)
    # if any parsing errors occurred, raise an exception
    if e:
        raise e
    self._join_multiline_values()

Функция _read скопирована из configparser.py. Единственное изменение, которое я сделал, это добавление условия if после строки optval = optval.strip(). ConfigParserMultiOpt вернет несколько значений для повторяющихся ключей в разделе файла tuple.

Я новичок в Python, поэтому, если у кого-то есть предложения по улучшению приведенного выше кода, я внимательно слушаю!