test.cfg
============
[Foo_Section]
BODY = Line of text 1
Continuing Line of text 1
============
Executing the code
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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
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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'
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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
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