Now that I look at the actual code, my approach doesn't always work! It will not preserve comments at the root level. For example:
# This is a comment [SectionA] # Comment on option1 option1 = foo option2 = bar # Inline comment about option2 The highlighted comment would not get preserved. The others would. Fixed in commit 98eef9b <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/commit/98eef9be0f9dddeb942847296ebe592f99051ec3> On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 4:04 PM vince <vinceska...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, December 23, 2020 at 2:48:37 PM UTC-8 Tom Keffer wrote: > >> I guess I'm not understanding this. If you create a config section for >> the installer, it will be faithfully reproduced as it gets injected into >> weewx.conf, including any comments. >> >> As an example, take a look at install.py >> <https://github.com/tkeffer/weewx-nmea-xdr/blob/master/install.py> for >> weewx-nmea-xdr <https://github.com/tkeffer/weewx-nmea-xdr>. >> >> > Perfect. > Exactly what I was hoping to do. > > Neither Belchertown (here > <https://github.com/poblabs/weewx-belchertown/blob/master/install.py>) > nor weewx-mqtt (here > <https://github.com/matthewwall/weewx-mqtt/blob/master/install.py>) do it > that way. > Your way is way slicker. > > >> Or, am I missing something? >> >> > Not in the least. > > Thanks a bunch ! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/7abfafed-bdbe-42a3-a41d-22e5ffcfffddn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/7abfafed-bdbe-42a3-a41d-22e5ffcfffddn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAPq0zECxPuLRLfURYynuwgyasPCD1vDf%3DaCG2fg8vfqmF59AVw%40mail.gmail.com.
