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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:06:30 -0400
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On 3/14/2012 6:07 AM, Gelonida N wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> At the moment I use ConfigParser
> http://docs.python.org/library/configparser.html
> for one of my applications.
>
>
> Now I'm looking for a library, which behaves like config parser, but
> with one minor difference.
>
> The write() mehtod should keep existing comments.

> Does anybody know or implement something like this or is there as
> switrch, that I overlooked in hte documentaiton.

Assuming that you have not overlooked anything, I would just subclass 
ConfigParser with an altered write method.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy