many dramatic cahnges. at least it import without error.

GPy/gpy_config.cfg

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+# This is the configuration file for GPy
+
+[parallel]
+# Enable openmp support. This speeds up some computations, depending on the number
+# of cores available. Setting up a compiler with openmp support can be difficult on 
+# some platforms, hence this option.
+openmp=False

GPy/util/config.py

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+#
+# This loads the configuration
+#
+import ConfigParser
+import os
+config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
+
+home = os.getenv('HOME') or os.getenv('USERPROFILE')
+user_file = os.path.join(home,'.gpy_config.cfg')
+default_file = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname( __file__ ), '..', 'gpy_config.cfg'))
+print user_file, os.path.isfile(user_file)
+print default_file, os.path.isfile(default_file)
+
+# 1. check if the user has a ~/.gpy_config.cfg
+if os.path.isfile(user_file):
+    config.read(user_file)
+elif os.path.isfile(default_file):
+    # 2. if not, use the default one
+    config.read(default_file)
+else:
+    #3. panic
+    raise ValueError, "no configuration file found"