[issue21498] configparser accepts keys beginning with comment_chars when writing

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[issue21498] configparser accepts keys beginning with comment_chars when writing

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[issue21498] configparser accepts keys beginning with comment_chars when writing

New submission from Florian Bruhin: When adding something to a configparser instance which has a key beginning with a comment char, it writes the data to a file without generating an error, and when reading the file back obviously the data is different as it's a comment: cp =