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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/configparser.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/configparser.py | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/configparser.py b/Lib/configparser.py index 3b4cb5e..2f45e24 100644 --- a/Lib/configparser.py +++ b/Lib/configparser.py @@ -908,6 +908,9 @@ class RawConfigParser(MutableMapping): If `space_around_delimiters' is True (the default), delimiters between keys and values are surrounded by spaces. + + Please note that comments in the original configuration file are not + preserved when writing the configuration back. """ if space_around_delimiters: d = " {} ".format(self._delimiters[0]) @@ -1006,7 +1009,7 @@ class RawConfigParser(MutableMapping): Configuration files may include comments, prefixed by specific characters (`#' and `;' by default). Comments may appear on their own in an otherwise empty line or may be entered in lines holding values or - section names. + section names. Please note that comments get stripped off when reading configuration files. """ elements_added = set() cursect = None # None, or a dictionary |