def readConfigFile(configFile):
    """Reads a config file with no section headers and returns a dictionary of key-value pairs"""
    separator = "="
    keys = {}
    # I named your file conf and stored it 
    # in the same directory as the script
    with open(configFile) as f:
        for line in f:
            if separator in line:
                # Find the name and value by splitting the string
                name, value = line.split(separator, 1)
                # Assign key value pair to dict
                # strip() removes white space from the ends of strings
                keys[name.strip()] = value.strip()
    return keys