> I think it's moot unless you also preserve comments. Ideally would be
> something that prserved everything (ordering, blank lines, comments
> etc.) from how it was read in. Modifying a value should keep its
> position. Adding a value should add it to the end of the section it's
> in (unless there are cases where ordering is important to the
> semantics -- are there?).
I wrote some code to do just that sometime back:
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~param/software/cfgparse/
It would probably need some cleanup and restructuring to be used, but
it may be a good starting point if configparser is to be rewritten.
-param
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