code: def _read_ini_config(ini_file_contents: str) -> Dict[str, str]:
      
      config = configparser.ConfigParser()
      config.optionxform = str
      config.read_string(_FAKE_SECTION + ini_file_contents)
  
      items = {}
      for section in config.sections():
          items.update(dict(config[section].items()))
  
      return items
docs: Parses the given ini file contents and converts to a dictionary of key/value pairs.
      :param ini_file_contents: the contents of the ini file
      :return: dictionary where the variable names are key and their values are the values