On Saturday, October 1, 2016 at 6:25:16 PM UTC-4, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> * Ben Finney (Sun, 02 Oct 2016 07:12:46 +1100)
> >
> > Thorsten Kampe <[email protected]> writes:
> >
> > > ConfigParser escapes `\n` in ini values as `\\n`.
>
> Indenting solves the problem. I'd rather keep it one line per value
> but it solves the problem.
If you want to have \n mean a newline in your config file, you can
do the conversion after you read the value:
>>> "a\\nb".decode("string-escape")
'a\nb'
--Ned.
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