From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 09:01:24 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [doc] configparser: avoid inline comments. (GH-31247) X-Git-Tag: v3.9.12~4 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f5af1677c06bb4cc006e7f9b30106212e1a00f81;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git [doc] configparser: avoid inline comments. (GH-31247) People are testing those blocs with the default inline_comment_prefixes of None, leading to a: configparser.InterpolationSyntaxError: '$' must be followed by '$' or '{', found: '$ sign ($ is the only character that needs to be escaped)' (cherry picked from commit 3ac4e783e077ffd7b51c6acc1591002974644051) Co-authored-by: Julien Palard --- diff --git a/Doc/library/configparser.rst b/Doc/library/configparser.rst index e5c78246881f..c98ffe718e50 100644 --- a/Doc/library/configparser.rst +++ b/Doc/library/configparser.rst @@ -323,7 +323,8 @@ from ``get()`` calls. my_pictures: %(my_dir)s/Pictures [Escape] - gain: 80%% # use a %% to escape the % sign (% is the only character that needs to be escaped) + # use a %% to escape the % sign (% is the only character that needs to be escaped): + gain: 80%% In the example above, :class:`ConfigParser` with *interpolation* set to ``BasicInterpolation()`` would resolve ``%(home_dir)s`` to the value of @@ -358,7 +359,8 @@ from ``get()`` calls. my_pictures: ${my_dir}/Pictures [Escape] - cost: $$80 # use a $$ to escape the $ sign ($ is the only character that needs to be escaped) + # use a $$ to escape the $ sign ($ is the only character that needs to be escaped): + cost: $$80 Values from other sections can be fetched as well: