Here's an example configuration file:

.. topic:: example.cfg
 :class: write-file

 ::

   [A Section]
   dir=frob
   long: this value continues
     on the next line

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  from testfixtures.compat import PY3
  # change to the temp directory
  import os
  original_dir = os.getcwd()
  os.chdir(tempdir.path)

To parse this file using the :mod:`ConfigParser` module, you would
do the following:

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   if PY3:
       from configparser import ConfigParser
   else:
       from ConfigParser import ConfigParser
   config = ConfigParser()
   config.read('example.cfg')

The items in the section are now available as follows:

>>> for name, value in sorted(config.items('A Section')):
...     print('{0!r}:{1!r}'.format(name, value))
'dir':'frob'
'long':'this value continues\non the next line'

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  # change out again
  import os
  os.chdir(original_dir)