On Saturday, October 1, 2016 at 6:25:16 PM UTC-4, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * Ben Finney (Sun, 02 Oct 2016 07:12:46 +1100) > > > > Thorsten Kampe <thors...@thorstenkampe.de> writes: > > > > > ConfigParser escapes `\n` in ini values as `\\n`. > > Indenting solves the problem. I'd rather keep it one line per value > but it solves the problem.
If you want to have \n mean a newline in your config file, you can do the conversion after you read the value: >>> "a\\nb".decode("string-escape") 'a\nb' --Ned. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list