Please make ConfigParser go away

Oh, ConfigParser, how I wish you would go away. You're un-pythonic and strict to the point of senslesness. You're parsing simple key/value files yet you won't give me a dictionary -- what are you smoking? And why are you in the standard library?

Finally fed up with yet another ConfigParser debacle (hint: try reading a git config file with ConfigParser), I've written my own replacement. I've called it configdict, and you find it on GitHub. configdict has the following properties:

• When you parse an INI style config file, you get back a dictionary of dictionaries.
• Dictionaries can "inherit" keys from the DEFAULT section.

Also, for the record:

• It's largely untested (other than in my little personal projects), and might eat your cat.

This means that given a config file:

[DEFAULT]

in stock = yes

[widgets]

price = 110.00
size = large

[sprockets]

price = 15.99
shape = oblong

You can do this:

>>> config = configdict.ConfigDict('myconfig.ini')
>>> print config['widgets']['price']
110.00
>>> print config['widgets']['in stock']
yes

And look, it really is a dictionary:

>>> import ppprint
>>> pprint.pprint(config)
{'DEFAULT': {'in stock': 'yes'},
 '__GLOBAL__': {},
 'widgets': {'description': '%(size)s widgets',
             'options': 'this that and the other thing',
             'price': '110.00',
             'size': 'large'}}

It supports some reasonably common features of this sort of configuration file. For example, line continuation:

options = this \
  that \
  and \
  the other thing

Which yields:

>>> c['sprockets']['options']
'this that and the other thing'