The empyrion config files are really hard to work with because they're in a custom format, so I wrote a parser/generator to help work with them. It includes a very limited object model which is really just an "Entry" to help you work with it in python.
Install with pip and use the command line, or use the utility functions as part of the package.
➜ pip install ecf_parser
Collecting ecf_parser
Downloading ecf_parser-0.1.1.tar.gz
Building wheels for collected packages: ecf-parser
Running setup.py bdist_wheel for ecf-parser ... done
Stored in directory: /home/lostinplace/.cache/pip/wheels/75/bb/a2/2369889367dd61fba9303e98a0c006e9d2868c6368d305c027
Successfully built ecf-parser
Installing collected packages: ecf-parser
Successfully installed ecf-parser-0.1.2
➜ ecf2json Content/Configuration/Config_Example.ecf
Note that the command json2ecf
is also available
Nope, I've included the json export of the example config in the sample dat folder in this repo