When reading the file, option names were not passed through

self.optionxform(), which (in the default case) caused options spelled
with opper case letters in their name to be inaccessible.  Reported by
"Todd R. Palmer" <t2palmer@bellsouth.net> on
activepython@listserv1.ActiveState.com.

diff --git a/Lib/ConfigParser.py b/Lib/ConfigParser.py
index e7636b9b855a269d17419c30b7f0ec3e5f98a904..16d18d25eb17114f690d7b124a6b20d38b651deb 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/ConfigParser.py
+++ b/Lib/ConfigParser.py
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ class ConfigParser:
                         # allow empty values
                         if optval == '""':
                             optval = ''
-                        cursect[optname] = optval
+                        cursect[self.optionxform(optname)] = optval
                     else:
                         # a non-fatal parsing error occurred.  set up the
                         # exception but keep going. the exception will be