Python's ConfigParser unique keys per section

>>> from ConfigParser import ConfigParser
>>> from StringIO import StringIO
>>> fh = StringIO("""
... [Some Section]
... spam: eggs
... spam: ham
... """)
>>> parser = ConfigParser()
>>> parser.readfp(fh)
>>> print parser.items('Some Section')
[('spam', 'ham')]

[Ignored Paths]
ignore-extension: .swp
ignore-filename: tags
ignore-directory: bin

[('spam', 'eggs'), ('spam', 'ham')]

parser.get('Some Section', 'spam')

[Some Section]
spam: eggs, ham

spam_values = [v.strip() for v in parser.get('Some Section', 'spam').split(',')]