Hi, I noticed configparser does behave in a surprising way when a key has a special meaning in ini-format.
Consider this example:
>>> cp = configparser.ConfigParser()
>>> cp.read_dict({'DEFAULT': {';foo': 'bar'}})
>>> cp.write(sys.stdout)
[DEFAULT]
;foo = bar
Now when reading this again, ";foo = bar" will be a comment and
ignored. There's probably similiar behaviour in other corner cases
(like if you'd use "[foo]" as key for example).
While it seems ConfigParser doesn't do any escaping as all, I'm
thinking it should at least raise some exception when such a value is
trying to be set.
I'd expect writing something and then reading it back via the same
configparser to *always* result in the same data, as long as writing
worked without error.
Thoughts? Should I submit a bug report?
Florian
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