docs: def spit_config(self, conf_file, firstwordonly=False):
          """conf_file a file opened for writing."""
  
          cfg = ConfigParser.RawConfigParser()
          for sec in _CONFIG_SECS:
              cfg.add_section(sec)
  
          sec = 'channels'
          for i in sorted(self.pack.D):
              cfg.set(sec, str(i),
                      self.pack.name(i, firstwordonly=firstwordonly))
  
          sec = 'conditions'
          for k in self.sorted_conkeys():
              cfg.set(sec, k, self.conditions[k])
  
          cfg.write(conf_file)