# ini

This section describes the thin wrapper api functions for processing INI data. The underlying functionality can also load ".conf, .cfg" files since they are nearly similar syntactically.

[functions](/docs/ini/functions.md)

The thin api functions used for the maci library that enable INI functionality, use and wrap the native configparser library shipped with the python standard library for its underlying functionality.

For more information on the configparser library, visit: <https://docs.python.org/3/library/configparser.html>


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