[Python-Dev] Extension to ConfigParser

[Guido van Rossum]

On 1/30/06, Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote:
> I don't think enhancing ConfigParser significantly is a good way
> forward.  Because of ConfigParser's problems people have made all sorts
> of workarounds, and so I don't think there's any public interface that
> we can maintain while changing the internals without breaking lots of
> code.  In practice, everything is a public interface.  So I think the
> implementation as it stands should stay in place, and if anything it
> should be deprecated instead of being enhanced in-place.

Somehow that's not my experience. What's so bad about ConfigParser?
What would break if we rewrote the save functionality to produce a
predictable order?

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