From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 22:35:19 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: commentary about how bad ConfigParser is doesn't help here, and the
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commentary about how bad ConfigParser is doesn't help here, and the
suggested approach to dealing with it isn't a good one; we need a
better general purpose config reader, not a distutils-specific reader
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diff --git a/Lib/distutils/dist.py b/Lib/distutils/dist.py
index f63ea97331..586e6bb145 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/dist.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/dist.py
@@ -346,9 +346,7 @@ class Distribution:
                         opt_dict[opt] = (filename, val)
 
             # Make the ConfigParser forget everything (so we retain
-            # the original filenames that options come from) -- gag,
-            # retch, puke -- another good reason for a distutils-
-            # specific config parser (sigh...)
+            # the original filenames that options come from)
             parser.__init__()
 
         # If there was a "global" section in the config file, use it