ConfigParser and newlines

[Tim Chase]

> test.cfg
> ============
> [Foo_Section]
> 
> BODY = Line of text 1
> 
>    Continuing Line of text 1
> ============
> 
> Executing the code
> ===============
> Python 2.5.1 Stackless 3.1b3 060516 (release25-maint, Mar  6 2009, 14:12:34)
> [GCC 4.3.0 20080428 (Red Hat 4.3.0-8)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> from ConfigParser import RawConfigParser
>>>> config = RawConfigParser()
>>>> config.read('test.cfg')
> ['test.cfg']
>>>> config.get('Foo_Section', 'BODY')
> 'Line of text 1\nContinuing Line of text 1'
> ===============
> 
> I was expecting 'Line of text 1\n\nContinuing Line of text 1'
>                                                ^^^^
> with 2 newlines, how can I achieve that with ConfigParser.

Not as best I can tell.  From my 
/usr/lib/python2.5/ConfigParser.py file, around line 441:

   if line[0].isspace() and cursect is not None and optname:
     value = line.strip()
     if value:
       cursect[optname] = "%s\n%s" % (cursect[optname], value)

That "value = line.strip()" is what's throwing away your extra 
newline.  Then the "if value" refuses to add the extra newline 
because it was a blank line.  It looks like this behavior was 
intentional?

-tkc