Berker Peksag added the comment: Thanks for the report. Yes, the RawConfigParser change was intentional and it was discussed in issue 20120. I'm marking this as a documentation issue. ---------- assignee: -> docs@python components: +Documentation nosy: +berker.peksag, docs@python stage: -> needs patch versions: +Python 3.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27467> _______________________________________