import configparser from xdg import xdg_config_home from pathlib import PurePath def main (): config_path = PurePath (xdg_config_home (), 'mm3mod', 'config.ini') config = configparser.ConfigParser () with open(config_path) as f: config.read_file (f) print("user =", config.get('rest','user')) if __name__ == "__main__": main()