def as_dict(config):
    """
    Converts a ConfigParser object into a dictionary.

    The resulting dictionary has sections as keys which point to a dict of the
    sections options as key => value pairs.
    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1773793/convert-configparser-items-to-dictionary
    """
    the_dict = {}
    for section in config.sections():
        the_dict[section] = {}
        for key, val in config.items(section):
            the_dict[section][key] = val
    return the_dict