How to use IronPython with App.Config?

Question

I have a class library that is usually called from a .net console or web application. It integrates with various components, and relies on an app.config or web.config.

I

Answer 1

For a workaround what I did was fill the AppSettings collection for the ConfigurationManager static class "manually", so I created a PY Script and run an "import" of it on IronPython and the settings then will be available for the class library. However I couldn assing values to the ConnectionStrings collection :(

my script looks like this

import clr
clr.AddReferenceToFileAndPath(r'c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.configuration.dll')
from System.Configuration import *
ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["settingA"] = "setting A value here"
ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["settingB"] = "setting B value here"

It would be nice though to know a way to "load" a custom .config file to the ConfigurationManager class.