Re: [PATCH] comment stripping in config files

Greg Hudson wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 11:16 -0700, Garrett Rooney wrote:
>
>>I've got a patch to fix this by stripping comments from values in the
>>config parser code, but I hesitate to change the behavior of this sort
>>of thing since someone might depend on it.
>
>
> What does Python do? We didn't invent the config file format, and we
> don't own it.

Python treats lines for which the # is not the first character literally.
So an option like:

   checkout_magic = # 0

is parsed as having a value '# 0',

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