[issue26537] ConfigParser has optoinxform, but not sectionxform

[Gereon Kaiping]

New submission from Gereon Kaiping:

configparser.ConfigParser (resp. ConfigParser.RawConfigParser for python2) has a optionxform function which converts the option names in a section to lower case by default.

A similar function for section titles would be expected (cf. https://github.com/lmaurits/BEASTling/issues/46#issuecomment-195131900), but it does not exist.

If ConfigParser called such a function (reasonably named sectionxform), which would default to None (or the identity function) for backward compatibility, that would be nice and consistent.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 261543
nosy: Anaphory
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: ConfigParser has optoinxform, but not sectionxform
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.5, Python 3.6

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