[Python-Dev] ConfigParser mangles keys with special chars

[Fred Drake]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 1:34 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at 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-structure

But that seems clear to me.  Lines starting with the comment prefix
are comments.


  -Fred

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