def parse_metrics(fileIn):
    """Takes a text file where a '=' is the delimter
    in a key value pair and return a python dict of those values """

    f = open(fileIn, "r")
    data = f.readlines()
    f.close()
    ret = {}
    for line in data:
        l = line.strip().split("=")
        key = l[0].strip()
        value = l[-1].strip()
        ret[key] = value
    return ret