Simple program to read ini files and export values

inireader.py

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

# Copyright (C) 2015 Eduardo Bellido Bellido
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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#
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import argparse
import ConfigParser


def main():
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Bla')
    parser.add_argument('-f', '--file', action='store', dest='ini_file',
                        metavar='INI FILE',
                        help='INI config file to read')
    parser.add_argument('-n', '--name', action='store_true',
                        help='Show property name, not only the value')
    parser.add_argument('properties_list', action='store')

    args = parser.parse_args()
    config = ConfigParser.RawConfigParser()
    config.read(args.ini_file)

    for prop in args.properties_list.split(','):
        section, name = prop.split(":")
        value = config.get(section, name)
        if args.name:
            print name + '=' + value
        else:
            print value

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()