Karthikeyan Singaravelan <tir.kar...@gmail.com> added the comment:
Ah my bad again. The config.optionxform = str does the trick. I was using an older object. from configparser import ConfigParser config = ConfigParser(allow_no_value=True) config.optionxform = str config.add_section('default_settings') config.set('default_settings', '; comment HERE') with open('example_case.ini', 'w') as configfile: config.write(configfile) with open('example_case.ini', 'r') as configfile: print(configfile.read()) Thanks ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue31535> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com