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18 changes: 17 additions & 1 deletion Doc/library/configparser.rst
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ConfigParser Objects
--------------------

.. class:: ConfigParser(defaults=None, dict_type=dict, allow_no_value=False, delimiters=('=', ':'), comment_prefixes=('#', ';'), inline_comment_prefixes=None, strict=True, empty_lines_in_values=True, default_section=configparser.DEFAULTSECT, interpolation=BasicInterpolation(), converters={})
.. class:: ConfigParser(defaults=None, dict_type=dict, allow_no_value=False, \
delimiters=('=', ':'), comment_prefixes=('#', ';'), \
inline_comment_prefixes=None, strict=True, \
empty_lines_in_values=True, \
default_section=configparser.DEFAULTSECT, \
interpolation=BasicInterpolation(), converters={}, \
allow_unnamed_section=False)

The main configuration parser. When *defaults* is given, it is initialized
into the dictionary of intrinsic defaults. When *dict_type* is given, it
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converter gets its own corresponding :meth:`!get*` method on the parser
object and section proxies.

When *allow_unnamed_section* is ``True`` (default: ``False``),
the first section name can be omitted, options with no section name
specified ahead (often called ``"Global Options"`` or
``options in "Default Section"``) are allowed. See
`"Supported INI File Structure" section<#supported-ini-file-structure>`_
for details.

It is possible to read several configurations into a single
:class:`ConfigParser`, where the most recently added configuration has the
highest priority. Any conflicting keys are taken from the more recent
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Raise a :exc:`MultilineContinuationError` when *allow_no_value* is
``True``, and a key without a value is continued with an indented line.

.. versionchanged:: 3.13
The *allow_unnamed_section* argument was added.

.. method:: defaults()

Return a dictionary containing the instance-wide defaults.
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