ConfigParser: whitespace leading comment lines

[gregwillden]

BPO	1576208
Nosy	@facundobatista

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title = 'ConfigParser: whitespace leading comment lines'
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[gregwillden]

I'd like to propose the following change to
ConfigParser.py.
This change will enable multiline comments as follows:

[section]
item=value ;first of multiline comment
;second of multiline comment

Right now the behaviour is

In [19]: cfg.get('section','item')
Out[19]: 'value\n;second of multiline comment'

It's a one-line change.
RawConfigParser._read lines 434-437
# comment or blank line?

•        if line.strip() == '' or line[0] in '#;':
  

+ if line.strip() == '' or line.strip()[0]
in '#;':
continue

[facundobatista]

Duplicate of bpo-1524825