I am trying to write to a .ini file without having to load the entire file first? It seems like a waist of CPU to load a INI file just to make a small change and write the entire file out again. Should I not be so picky and just load the entire file?

I looked at ConfigObj module and I didn’t see anything about saving just part of a .ini file to a bigger .ini file. I have so far been using ConfigParser to load the entire file and save it out to disk just to make a small change. My config files are not too large at all, yet. But soon I will need 16KB (section, item) value sizes. I could just put each 8b peice of data in to its own (section) item but then I would need 3 thousand items in just one section with multiple sections with the same amount of items (2-3000) items with short values. Or a few very large items values. You see why I don’t want to load every .ini file before writting a small change. I will settle for just the best INI config file parser available. Type validation is not important. Easy to use is imprtant. I don’t like those config file parsers that use Dict(conf_item=List(Unicode())) or whatever the heck those config files do. I don’t like it and I don’t need it. Thank you very much for your answers.