[Distutils] setup.cfg - to interpolate or not to interpolate

[Ben Finney]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> writes:

> That would make the following the lowest impact resolution that still
> fixes the original reported problem:
>
> - update the ConfigParser (3.x) and SafeConfigParser (2.x) docs to
> explicitly say that "%%" works as an escape
> - update setuptools and distutils to use SafeConfigParser in 2.7
> - update the setuptools and distutils docs to say that interpolation
> is enabled when reading setup.cfg and "%%" works as an escape (except
> on older versions of Python 2.x with either distutils or an older
> version of setuptools).
>
> So I'll retract my initial response as being ill-informed (since I
> didn't click through and read the original bug report).

I'm glad to see this result, thank you for taking all that into account.

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Ben Finney