Comments in ConfigParser module

[James Stroud]

Joel Granados wrote:
> 
> 
> On 4/6/07, *James Stroud* <jstroud at mbi.ucla.edu 
> <mailto:jstroud at mbi.ucla.edu>> wrote:
> 
>     Joel Andres Granados wrote:
>      > Hi list:
>      > Any comment greatly appreciated....
> 
>     Very clever.
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> clever ???
> Well I would expect that the ";" character to behave the same way that 
> the "#", as they are both characters that come before a comment.  But it 
> doesn't.  So I'm missing something here.  Why is the different behavior 
> clever?
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I was referring to his asking for "comments" in a post about "comments". 
I thought this was a clever way to conclude. I have no idea why the 
behavior of the module is the way it is. Seems like a bug to me, but I 
have not read the official .ini file specification, so I'm not sure its 
working correctly.

Cheers,

James