[issue19991] configparser instances cannot be pretty printed

[Irit Katriel]

Irit Katriel <iritkatriel at gmail.com> added the comment:

It's not just that it can't be pretty printed - it doesn't even have __str__ or __repr__.

I think the only thing we have now it write, which can do this:

>>> config = configparser.ConfigParser()
>>> config['DEFAULT'] = {'ServerAliveInterval': '45','Compression': 'yes','CompressionLevel': '9'}
>>> f = io.StringIO()
>>> config.write(f)
>>> f.getvalue()
'[DEFAULT]\nserveraliveinterval = 45\ncompression = yes\ncompressionlevel = 9\n\n'
>>> pprint.pprint(f.getvalue())
('[DEFAULT]\n'
 'serveraliveinterval = 45\n'
 'compression = yes\n'
 'compressionlevel = 9\n'
 '\n')
>>>


Is this enough, or should something be added?

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