Read all the contents in ini file into dictionary with Python

I suggest subclassing ConfigParser.ConfigParser (or SafeConfigParser, &c) to safely access the "protected" attributes (names starting with single underscore -- "private" would be names starting with two underscores, not to be accessed even in subclasses...):

import ConfigParserclass MyParser(ConfigParser.ConfigParser):    def as_dict(self):        d = dict(self._sections)        for k in d:            d[k] = dict(self._defaults, **d[k])            d[k].pop('__name__', None)        return d

This emulates the usual logic of config parsers, and is guaranteed to work in all versions of Python where there's a ConfigParser.py module (up to 2.7, which is the last of the 2.* series -- knowing that there will be no future Python 2.any versions is how compatibility can be guaranteed;-).

If you need to support future Python 3.* versions (up to 3.1 and probably the soon forthcoming 3.2 it should be fine, just renaming the module to all-lowercase configparser instead of course) it may need some attention/tweaks a few years down the road, but I wouldn't expect anything major.

I managed to get an answer, but I expect there should be a better one.

dictionary = {}for section in config.sections():    dictionary[section] = {}    for option in config.options(section):        dictionary[section][option] = config.get(section, option)

I know that this question was asked 5 years ago, but today I've made this dict comprehension thingy:

parser = ConfigParser()parser.read(filename)confdict = {section: dict(parser.items(section)) for section in parser.sections()}