Python configparser will not accept keys without values

The ConfigParser constructor has a keyword argument allow_no_value with a default value of False.

Try setting that to true, and I'm betting it'll work for you.

class RawConfigParser:
def __init__(self, defaults=None, dict_type=_default_dict,
             allow_no_value=False):
    self._dict = dict_type
    self._sections = self._dict()
    self._defaults = self._dict()
    if allow_no_value:
        self._optcre = self.OPTCRE_NV
    else:
        self._optcre = self.OPTCRE
    if defaults:
        for key, value in defaults.items():
            self._defaults[self.optionxform(key)] = value

import ConfigParser

cf = ConfigParser.ConfigParser(allow_no_value=True)