java-props-in-python

Read the key, element pairs from a java properties file

Follows the java properties file format and tested against the Java 6 version of java.util.Properties

Args:
  propfile: a valid file object (as returned by open(filename))
Returns:
  The property key and elements as a dict
Raises:
  IOError: if file operation fails with I/O related reason
  Corresponds to java IOException in Properties.load()
UnicodeDecodeError: if the property file has malformed \uxxxx encoding,
  Corresponds to java IllegalArgumentException in Properties.load()
AttributeError: if invalid object was provided for file object
  Corresponds to java NullPointerException