Python 2.7x and 3.xx compatibility fixes

Change-Id: I84eb3bf7691fa867acadf9dae8c4f56a9781bf73
Signed-off-by: George Keishing <gkeishin@in.ibm.com>
diff --git a/lib/gen_misc.py b/lib/gen_misc.py
index f236320..db7ecf4 100755
--- a/lib/gen_misc.py
+++ b/lib/gen_misc.py
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@
     try:
         config_parser = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
     except NameError:
-        config_parser = configparser.ConfigParser()
+        config_parser = configparser.ConfigParser(strict=False)
     # Make the property names case-sensitive.
     config_parser.optionxform = str
     # Read the properties from the string file.