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+# vim: set filencoding=utf8
+"""
+Exchange Proxy Utility Functions
+
+@author: Mike Crute (mcrute@ag.com)
+@organization: American Greetings Interactive
+@date: February 15, 2010
+"""
+
+from collections import defaultdict
+from ConfigParser import ConfigParser
+
+
+def config_dict(config_file):
+    """
+    Load a ConfigParser config as a dictionary. Will also
+    attempt to do simple stuff like convert ints.
+    """
+    config = ConfigParser()
+    config.read(config_file)
+    output = defaultdict(dict)
+
+    for section in config.sections():
+        for key, value in config.items(section):
+            if value.isdigit():
+                value = int(value)
+
+            output[section][key] = value
+
+    return dict(output)
+