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authorEzio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com>2011-04-14 03:53:44 (GMT)
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#9101: backport json reference in configparser doc.
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This library does *not* interpret or write the value-type prefixes used in
the Windows Registry extended version of INI syntax.
+.. seealso::
+
+ Module :mod:`shlex`
+ Support for a creating Unix shell-like mini-languages which can be used
+ as an alternate format for application configuration files.
+
+ Module :mod:`json`
+ The json module implements a subset of JavaScript syntax which can also
+ be used for this purpose.
+
The configuration file consists of sections, led by a ``[section]`` header and
followed by ``name: value`` entries, with continuations in the style of
:rfc:`822` (see section 3.1.1, "LONG HEADER FIELDS"); ``name=value`` is also