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 does exactly what our config parser does. And our config files
are documented to be compatible with Python's ConfigParser, down to the
variable-lookup mechanism.

So, -1 on changing our parser. Users should RTfineM.

-- Brane

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Received on Thu Apr 27 21:32:22 2006