Cómo hacer un archivo de configuración TXT en Python

#No library mode
file = open("abc.txt", 'r')
content = file.read()
paths = content.split("\n") 
for x in xs:
    print x.split(" = ")[1]
    
x_list = []
x_dict = {}
for path in paths:
    p = path.split(" = ")
    path_list.append(p)[1]
    path_dict[p[0]] = p[1]
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