docs: def read_config(contents):
      """Reads pylintrc config into native ConfigParser object.
  
      Args:
          contents (str): The contents of the file containing the INI config.
  
      Returns:
          ConfigParser.ConfigParser: The parsed configuration.
      """
      file_obj = io.StringIO(contents)
      config = six.moves.configparser.ConfigParser()
      config.readfp(file_obj)
      return config