Joshua Haas added the comment:
I'm not sure it's deprecated so much as moved. Python 3.5 includes an
additional init parameter, so setting inline_comment_prefixes=';' allows inline
comments even for values containing the ';' character, displaying the "
New submission from Joshua Haas:
Originally reported at http://bugs.python.org/issue27762 as a behavior bug but
was determined to be won't fix. Thus I think this needs to be mentioned in the
documentation at https://docs.python.org/2/library/configparser.html
I propose that directly afte
New submission from Joshua Haas:
According to the 2.7 docs at
https://docs.python.org/2/library/configparser.html, you can create in-line
comments using ";" if it is preceded by white space.
However, if the value of a config option contains a semi-colon, for example
"pass
