On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 1:34 AM, Steven D'Aprano steve@pearwood.info wrote:
I think that a line beginning with "#spam" is ambiguous, it isn't clear if it is intended as a comment "spam" or a key starting with #, so by the Zen, configparser should refuse to guess.
Seriously?
Perhaps the second paragraph here could be strengthened a little: https://docs.python.org/3/library/configparser.html#supported-ini-file-struc...
But that seems clear to me. Lines starting with the comment prefix are comments.
-Fred
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