There are a lot of good options here. Much more than I thought I had. Since my program's configuration file will need to be read/writeable from an existing Java Netbeans GUI, I'll most likely move the Python module to an INI or XML document. The deciding factor will be whichever the other programmer is most comfortable with, of course.
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