ConfigParser options spanning more than one line

[Josh Close]

That works, I guess I'll just have to remove the \n from the variable then.

-Josh

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 13:31:03 -0500, Paramjit Oberoi
<p_s_oberoi at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm using ConfigParser and I can't seem to get a config option to span
> > more than one line.
> 
> >>> from ConfigParser import ConfigParser
> >>> from StringIO import StringIO
> >>> s = StringIO("[a]\n"
> ....              "b = 123\n"
> ....              " 456")
> >>> c=ConfigParser()
> >>> c.readfp(s)
> >>> c.get('a','b')
> '123\n456'
> 
> In other words, any line with a leading whitespace is considered a
> continuation line, and the leading whitespace is stripped from the value
> (but the carriage return is left in).
> 
> HTH,
> -param
> 
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