ConfigParser options spanning more than one line

Nick Patavalis npat at efault.net
Mon Aug 16 14:26:32 EDT 2004


On 2004-08-16, Josh Close <narshe at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm using ConfigParser and I can't seem to get a config option to span
> more than one line.
>
> [MyConfig]
> var = blah blah blah\
>         blah continued
>
> Putting the '\' doesn't work
>
> Is there a way to do that? Or do I have to deal with having a huge
> long string all on one line?

Simply do:

  [MyConfig]
  var = blah blah blah
         blah continued

without the '\'. Indentation continues the line.

/npat



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