include a custom conf parser

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diff --git a/confparser.py b/confparser.py
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+#!python3
+
+__all__ = ['read_conf']
+
+import csv
+
+class conf_dialect(csv.Dialect):
+    delimiter = '='
+    quotechar = '"'
+    escapechar = '\\'
+    doublequote = True
+    skipinitialspace = True
+    lineterminator = '\n'
+    quoting = csv.QUOTE_MINIMAL
+
+def genestrip(geneorg):
+    for line in geneorg:
+        line = line.strip()
+        if not len(line) or line.startswith('#'):
+            continue
+        yield line
+
+def read_conf(filename):
+    with open(filename, 'r', encoding='utf8') as linegen:
+        reader = csv.reader(genestrip(linegen), dialect=conf_dialect)
+        dic = {row[0].strip(): row[1] for row in reader if len(row) >= 2}
+    return dic