[issue37779] configparser: add documentation about several read() behaviour

Stéphane Blondon added the comment: Merged by Łukasz Langa in september 2020. (Thanks Łukasz) -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue37779] configparser: add documentation about several read() behaviour

Łukasz Langa added the comment: New changeset 48b0b1b121f26f811265f9eb06f195a3df38ef4b by sblondon in branch 'master': bpo-37779 : Add information about the overriding behavior of ConfigParser.read (GH-15177) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/48b0b1b121f26f811265f9eb06f195a3df38ef4b

[issue37779] configparser: add documentation about several read() behaviour

Stéphane Blondon added the comment: Thank you for the idea. :) I committed something else, based on the previous example of the 'Quick Start' section. What do you think about it? -- ___ Python tracker

[issue37779] configparser: add documentation about several read() behaviour

Change by Stéphane Blondon : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +14908 stage: needs patch -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/15177 ___ Python tracker

[issue37779] configparser: add documentation about several read() behaviour

Joannah Nanjekye added the comment: I think you can build on the story in the quick start section. You can build on from the last section that starts with the paragraph: Now that we have created and saved a configuration file, let’s read it back and explore the data it holds. As it has some

[issue37779] configparser: add documentation about several read() behaviour

Joannah Nanjekye added the comment: @Stéphane, thanks for suggesting the above documentation. Feel free to open a pull request here: https://github.com/python/cpython with this draft for review. -- nosy: +nanjekyejoannah ___ Python tracker

[issue37779] configparser: add documentation about several read() behaviour

Change by SilentGhost : -- components: +Cross-Build -Library (Lib) nosy: +Alex.Willmer stage: -> needs patch type: enhancement -> behavior versions: +Python 3.8 ___ Python tracker

[issue37779] configparser: add documentation about several read() behaviour

Change by SilentGhost : -- assignee: -> docs@python components: +Documentation -Cross-Build nosy: +docs@python -Alex.Willmer ___ Python tracker ___

[issue37779] configparser: add documentation about several read() behaviour

New submission from Stéphane Blondon : The documentation is not explicit about the behaviour if several files are read by the same ConfigParser: the data are not reset between two read(). I suggest to add such information in the documentation. There is a draft: === start === When a