[Python-Dev] Distutils ML wrap-up: setup.cfg new format

Dirkjan Ochtman dirkjan at ochtman.nl
Tue Sep 22 16:02:55 CEST 2009


On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 15:55, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
> ConfigParser recognises both, but other tools (*coff* ConfigObj) only
> recognises the latter (=).

So does Mercurial, BTW, because this aspect of ConfigParser was pretty
annoying for some of the stuff we try to do (and not at all obvious to
most users, who have never seen anything but = used in config-style
files).

Cheers,

Dirkjan


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