On 4/25/2014 1:41 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:
On 04/25/2014 09:46 AM, Fred Drake wrote:
At this point, it would be a backward-incompatible change, so it's
unlikely such a change could be allowed to affect existing code.
All bug-fixes are backwards-incompatible, yet we fix them anyway. ;)
It seems to me the real question is do we fix it in 3.5 only, or can we
fix it in 3.4 and previous? And the answer depends on whether this
behavior can be reasonably relied on.
And that depends on whether the current thought-to-be-buggy behavior is
specified by the doc, compatible with an ambiguous or under-specified
doc, or prohibited by the doc (because the doc specified something else).
I leave it to someone to carefully read the doc, but a brief glance
indicates "There are nearly as many INI format variants as there are
applications using it. configparser goes a long way to provide support
for the largest sensible set of INI styles available." So I wonder
whether the thought-to-be-buggy behavior is actually buggy with respect
to *all* the supported styles or just some of them.
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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