From f5af1677c06bb4cc006e7f9b30106212e1a00f81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 02:01:24 -0700 Subject: [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 --- Doc/library/configparser.rst | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/configparser.rst b/Doc/library/configparser.rst index e5c78246881..c98ffe718e5 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: -- cgit v1.2.3-65-gdbad