[Zope-Coders] Environment variables

[Casey Duncan]

On Monday 29 April 2002 09:22 pm, Matt Behrens allegedly wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 05:00:35PM -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>=20
> > > Another requirement, that may have been mentioned already, is a cle=
ar
> > > understanding of ALL of the configuration settings available.  This=
 is a
> > > nice feature in most of the existing unix .conf's, where all of the=
=20
options
> > > are in the file, but mostly commented out.
> >=20
> > Yes, please!
>=20
> Yes, this is very easy to do.  ConfigParser already supports the #
> and ;'s.  So it just has to be done. :-)  I will do it for whatever
> settings I migrate to instance.conf.

Well, the only problem with that in regards to ConfigParser is that the=20
comments are erased if you ever use it's write method.

-Casey