[issue31535] configparser unable to write comment with a upper cas letter

[Karthikeyan Singaravelan]

Karthikeyan Singaravelan <tir.karthi at gmail.com> added the comment:

All config options are converted to lowercase when they are stored. You can customise this with https://docs.python.org/3/library/configparser.html#configparser.ConfigParser.optionxform. You can customize it more with https://docs.python.org/3/library/configparser.html#customizing-parser-behaviour

>  Note also that keys in sections are case-insensitive and stored in lowercase 

>>> from configparser import ConfigParser
>>> c = ConfigParser()
>>> c["A"] = {'FOO': 'bar'}
>>> with open('example.ini', 'w') as configfile: c.write(configfile)
...
>>> with open('example.ini', 'r') as configfile: print(configfile.read())
...
[A]
foo = bar


# Don't convert to lower case

>>> d = ConfigParser()
>>> d.optionxform = str
>>> d["A"] = {'FOO': 'bar'}
>>> with open('example_case.ini', 'w') as configfile: d.write(configfile)
...
>>> with open('example_case.ini', 'r') as configfile: print(configfile.read())
...
[A]
FOO = bar


Hope this answers your question. Feel free to close this if it's clear.

Thanks

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