From: Jeremy Hylton <jeremy@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 20:43:57 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: allow comments beginning with ; in key: value as well as key = value
X-Git-Tag: v1.6a1~298
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=820314ea954963937ee51190ea916b1f54361d0f;p=python

allow comments beginning with ; in key: value as well as key = value
---

diff --git a/Lib/ConfigParser.py b/Lib/ConfigParser.py
index aac9b69192..e1ce9ddc7e 100644
--- a/Lib/ConfigParser.py
+++ b/Lib/ConfigParser.py
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ class ConfigParser:
                     if mo:
                         optname, vi, optval = mo.group('option', 'vi', 'value')
                         optname = string.lower(optname)
-                        if vi == '=' and ';' in optval:
+                        if vi in ('=', ':') and ';' in optval:
                             # ';' is a comment delimiter only if it follows
                             # a spacing character
                             pos = string.find(optval, ';')