ConfigParser:

- ensure that option names in interpolations are handled by
  self.optionxform in the same way that other references to option
  names
- add tests, documentation
(closes SF bug #857881, patch #865455)

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libcfgparser.tex b/Doc/lib/libcfgparser.tex
index ca9eb2d..a64ae53 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libcfgparser.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libcfgparser.tex
@@ -62,6 +62,13 @@ and \method{items()} methods.  The values in \var{defaults} must be
 appropriate for the \samp{\%()s} string interpolation.  Note that
 \var{__name__} is an intrinsic default; its value is the section name,
 and will override any value provided in \var{defaults}.
+
+All option names used in interpolation will be passed through the
+\method{optionxform()} method just like any other option name
+reference.  For example, using the default implementation of
+\method{optionxform()} (which converts option names to lower case),
+the values \samp{foo \%(bar)s} and \samp{foo \%(BAR)s} are
+equivalent.
 \end{classdesc}
 
 \begin{classdesc}{SafeConfigParser}{\optional{defaults}}
@@ -271,6 +278,8 @@ option names case sensitive.
 
 The \class{ConfigParser} class extends some methods of the
 \class{RawConfigParser} interface, adding some optional arguments.
+The \class{SafeConfigParser} class implements the same extended
+interface.
 
 \begin{methoddesc}{get}{section, option\optional{, raw\optional{, vars}}}
 Get an \var{option} value for the named \var{section}.  All the