kernc added the comment: > > I am dubious that there are any with a mixture of both sections and > additional option lines at the top without a section. >
rsyncd.conf [1] is one such example, and I wouldn't say there aren't countless more in the wild. > Anyone writing an app and planning to parse a .ini file can add [Start] or > [Setup] at the top. > Indeed. Here lies the problem of this unfortunate issue: MissingSectionHeaderError is only ever caught [9] to mitigate this **awful default behavior** and attach a dummy section at the top, as you say. Or can anyone care to propose another relevant use case for this poorly (un-) thought through exception? > I think a more useful new configparser feature would be to keep comment > lines and write them back out after a configuration is changed. > While this is very much off-topic, configobj [3] does too seem to have done so since ages. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue22253> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
