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<p>Certain information, such as a version number, might be needed in several places in a project.  For instance both
setup.py and the Sphinx conf.py share this information.  While there are a myriad of approaches to how to solve
this problem, our best practice is to store them in a configuration file (.cfg) which is structured like an ini
file with [section] and key = value pairs.   This is done for the maximum portability across a build environment;
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