On 4/25/2014 12:46 PM, Fred Drake wrote:
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Florian Bruhin me@the-compiler.org wrote:
While it seems ConfigParser doesn't do any escaping as all, I'm thinking it should at least raise some exception when such a value is trying to be set.
I'd expect writing something and then reading it back via the same configparser to always result in the same data, as long as writing worked without error.
Thoughts? Should I submit a bug report?
I believe you should, if only to provide a place to record why no change gets made.
When you do, add lukasz.langa as nosy https://docs.python.org/devguide/experts.html#experts
You might also take a look in test/test_configparser.py to see if any edge cases are tested for.
Had ConfigParser been more careful from the beginning, that would have been really good.
At this point, it would be a backward-incompatible change, so it's unlikely such a change could be allowed to affect existing code.
-Fred
-- Terry Jan Reedy