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 create variable that starts by # or ; character:

conf.set('default_settings', '; comment here', '')
conf.set('default_settings', 'test', 1)

created conf file is

    [default_settings]
    ; comment here = 
    test = 1

ConfigParser.read function won't parse first value

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

gives

[('test','1')]