From 7f9d2ead346902bbe3da15969605b3bcd4ea06eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ezio Melotti Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 06:53:44 +0300 Subject: #9101: backport json reference in configparser doc. --- Doc/library/configparser.rst | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/library/configparser.rst b/Doc/library/configparser.rst index 4b1e7a0..e8eb384 100644 --- a/Doc/library/configparser.rst +++ b/Doc/library/configparser.rst @@ -32,6 +32,16 @@ easily. 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 -- cgit v0.12