Writing comments to files with ConfigParser

Question

How can one write comments to a given file within sections?

If I have:

import ConfigParser
with open(\'./config.ini\', \'w\') as f:
    conf = Config         


        

Answer 1

You can use the allow_no_value option if you have Version >= 2.7

This snippet:

import ConfigParser

config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser(allow_no_value=True)
config.add_section('default_settings')
config.set('default_settings', '; comment here')
config.set('default_settings', 'test', 1)
with open('config.ini', 'w') as fp:
    config.write(fp)


config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser(allow_no_value=True)
config.read('config.ini')
print config.items('default_settings')

will create an ini file like this:

[default_settings]
; comment here
test = 1