diff --git a/src/config_utils.py b/src/config_utils.py
index 165d82c0..45a574a8 100644
--- a/src/config_utils.py
+++ b/src/config_utils.py
@@ -2,10 +2,12 @@
 from configobj import ConfigObj, ParseError
 from validate import Validator, ValidateError
 import os
-
+import string
 class ConfigLoadError(Exception): pass
 
 def load_config(config_path, configspec_path=None, *args, **kwargs):
+ if os.path.exists(config_path):
+  clean_config(config_path)
  spec = ConfigObj(configspec_path, encoding='UTF8', list_values=False, _inspec=True)
  try:
   config = ConfigObj(infile=config_path, configspec=spec, create_empty=True, encoding='UTF8', *args, **kwargs)
@@ -16,3 +18,56 @@ def load_config(config_path, configspec_path=None, *args, **kwargs):
  if validated == True:
   config.write()
   return config
+
+def is_blank(arg):
+ "Check if a line is blank."
+ for c in arg:
+  if c not in string.whitespace:
+   return False
+ return True
+def get_keys(path):
+ "Gets the keys of a configobj config file."
+ res=[]
+ fin=open(path)
+ for line in fin:
+  if not is_blank(line):
+   res.append(line[0:line.find('=')].strip())
+ fin.close()
+ return res
+
+def hist(keys):
+ "Generates a histogram of an iterable."
+ res={}
+ for k in keys:
+  res[k]=res.setdefault(k,0)+1
+ return res
+
+def find_problems(hist):
+ "Takes a histogram and returns a list of items occurring more than once."
+ res=[]
+ for k,v in hist.items():
+  if v>1:
+   res.append(k)
+ return res
+
+def clean_config(path):
+ "Cleans a config file. If duplicate values are found, delete all of them and just use the default."
+ orig=[]
+ cleaned=[]
+ fin=open(path)
+ for line in fin:
+  orig.append(line)
+ fin.close()
+ for p in find_problems(hist(get_keys(path))):
+  for o in orig:
+   o.strip()
+   if p not in o:
+    cleaned.append(o)
+ if len(cleaned) != 0:
+  cam=open(path,'w')
+  for c in cleaned:
+   cam.write(c)
+  cam.close()
+  return True
+ else:
+  return False
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