(work)(~) $ cat mod from ConfigParser import * import glob, os config = SafeConfigParser() config.read(glob.glob(os.path.expanduser("~/.cfg.d/*"))) for i in config.sections().sorted(): print i (work)(~) $ python mod Traceback (most recent call last): File "mod", line 7, in for i in config.sections().sorted(): AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'sorted' (work)(~) $