How to use the configparser.ConfigParser.read function in configparser

def read(self, filename):
        """Reads the file specified by filename

        This method will load the eapi.conf file specified by filename into
        the instance object.  It will also add the default connection localhost
        if it was not defined in the eapi.conf file

        Args:
            filename (str): The full path to the file to load
        """

        try:
            SafeConfigParser.read(self, filename)
        except SafeConfigParserError as exc:
            # Ignore file and syslog a message on SafeConfigParser errors
            msg = ("%s: parsing error in eapi conf file: %s" %
                   (type(exc).__name__, filename))
            debug(msg)

        self._add_default_connection()

        for name in self.sections():
            if name.startswith('connection:') and \
               'host' not in dict(self.items(name)):

                self.set(name, 'host', name.split(':')[1])
        self.generate_tags()

def read(self, filenames):
		fileNamesFull = []
		if not isinstance(filenames, list):
			filenames = [ filenames ]
		for filename in filenames:
			fileNamesFull += SafeConfigParserWithIncludes.getIncludes(filename)
		logSys.debug("Reading files: %s" % fileNamesFull)
		if sys.version_info >= (3,2): # pragma: no cover
			return SafeConfigParser.read(self, fileNamesFull, encoding='utf-8')
		else:
			return SafeConfigParser.read(self, fileNamesFull)

def read(self, filenames, encoding=None):
        """Overridden read() method to call parse_flask_section() at the end"""
        ret = configparser.ConfigParser.read(self, filenames, encoding)
        self.parse_flask_section()
        return ret

def read(self, filenames):
        """Read the list of config files."""
        # print("[DEBUG] filenames: ", filenames)
        ConfigParser.read(self, filenames)

def read(self, filename):
        if isinstance(filename, (list, tuple)):
            self.filename = filename[0]
        else:
            self.filename = filename

        ConfigParser.read(self, filename)

def read(self):
        return ConfigParser.read(self, self.filename)