> 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 _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com