Read properties from configuration file in Python

It's always recommended to keep properties such as username, password, .. etc in .cfg files, instead of code. (Debate of appropriate/correct approach is out of context :) )

Let's say we have application configurations in a file "app.cfg". Contents of the "app.cfg" file:

[default]

host=abc.xyz.com

...

...

[mysql]

username=root

password=root

...

Let's look at the python code snippet to read the above application properties.

import ConfigParser

# class definition

class <class_name>:

    def __init__(self):

        ##### read properties

        config = ConfigParser.RawConfigParser()

        config.read(self.__file_path('app.cfg'))

        user = config.get('mysql', 'user')

        password = config.get('mysql', 'password')

# some other code funtionality

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