From d617cba62d16485cf004f1c2dec0e072d592e0ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:04:51 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] add further note about what's passed to optionxform

---
 Doc/library/configparser.rst | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Doc/library/configparser.rst b/Doc/library/configparser.rst
index 1af14cccc0..2d8aa50e4c 100644
--- a/Doc/library/configparser.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/configparser.rst
@@ -349,6 +349,9 @@ RawConfigParser Objects
       ...
       cfgparser.optionxform = str
 
+   Note that when reading configuration files, whitespace around the
+   option names are stripped before :meth:``optionxform`` is called.
+
 
 .. _configparser-objects:
 
-- 
2.50.1