A very common theme in several GUI programs involves letting the user set the program's preferences.
For example, what if we want users to be able to customize the chessboard colors? What if we want users to select colors and once selected, it is saved as a user preference and it is loaded the next time the program is run? Let's implement this as a feature.
Python offers a standard module called configparser that lets us save user preferences. Let's see the configparser module in action.
To begin with, import the ConfigParser class from the configparser module in the configurations.py file, as follows (see code 4.07):
from configparser import ConfigParser
The configparser module uses the .ini files to store and read the configuration values. The file consists of one or more named sections. These sections contain individual options with names and values.
To illustrate this, let's create a file called chess_options.ini in the project's root folder (see code 4.07). The file...
