database object or not

I may have asked this before but I searched high and low and cannot find the solution anymore. The examples show how to create a database and do things with it.

What is wrong here, I can print the self.db containing the database connection but I cannot use the properties method of it..

import sys
import logging
import configparser
from arango import ArangoClient

logging.basicConfig(
    filename="test.log",
    level=logging.DEBUG,
    format = "%(asctime)s:%(levelname)s:%(message)s"
)

class dataBeest(object):
    def __init__(self):
        logging.debug("Initializing database object.")
        self.initialize_db()

    def read_db_config(self):
        logging.debug("Reading database configuration.")
        try:
            # Return db config from config file
            config = configparser.ConfigParser()
            config.read('arango-client.conf')
            return config['database']
        except IOError as e:
            print('Reading config failed: {}'.format(e))
        except:
            print('Unexpected error: {}'.format(sys.exc_info()[0]))
            raise

    def initialize_db(self):
        logging.debug("Initializing database connection.")
        try:
            databaseConfig = self.read_db_config()
            client = ArangoClient(
                protocol=databaseConfig['protocol'],
                host=databaseConfig['host'],
                port=databaseConfig['port'],
                username=databaseConfig['username'],
                password=databaseConfig['password'],
                enable_logging=databaseConfig['enable_logging']
            )

            self.db = client.database(databaseConfig['database'])

            # print(self.db.properties())

            self.collection = self.db.collection(databaseConfig['collection'])
            logging.debug('Database: {}'.format(self.db))
            logging.debug('Collection: {}'.format(self.collection))

        except:
            print('Unexpected error: {}'.format(sys.exc_info()[0]))
            raise

testen = dataBeest()

It seems that the issue was a fault in the config I load with configparser