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+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+#
+
+"""Utilities for managing configuration files"""
+import os
+
+QPID_ENV_PREFIX="QPID_"
+
+def parse_qpidd_conf(config_file):
+    """Parse a qpidd.conf configuration file into a dictionary"""
+    f =  open(config_file)
+    try:
+        clean = filter(None, [line.split("#")[0].strip() for line in f]) # Strip comments and blanks
+        def item(line): return [x.strip() for x in line.split("=")]
+        config = dict(item(line) for line in clean if "=" in line)
+    finally: f.close()
+    def name(env_name): return env_name[len(QPID_ENV_PREFIX):].lower()
+    env = dict((name(i[0]), i[1]) for i in os.environ.iteritems() if i[0].startswith(QPID_ENV_PREFIX))
+    config.update(env)          # Environment takes precedence
+    return config