def stash_conf_values():
 conf = {'bind_host': CONF.bind_host, 'bind_port': CONF.bind_port, 'tcp_keepidle': CONF.cert_file, 'backlog': CONF.backlog, 'key_file': CONF.key_file, 'cert_file': CONF.cert_file}
 return conf

def stash_conf_values ( ) : conf = { 'bind_host' : CONF . bind_host , 'bind_port' : CONF . bind_port , 'tcp_keepidle' : CONF . cert_file , 'backlog' : CONF . backlog , 'key_file' : CONF . key_file , 'cert_file' : CONF . cert_file } return conf
make a copy of some of the current global confs settings .